Several dozens of persons from the Bulgarian Falun Dafa Association, the Bulgarian Organization for a Free Tibet, and the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee took part in a protest rally before the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Sofia on Saturday.

The participants in the initiative protested against the media and Internet censorship in China and insisted that detained 80 detained journalists be freed, and that foreign media be allowed free access to the investigation of certain cases, mostly regarding human rights abuses.

The protest is part of the initiative of the Reporters without Borders organization, which has called for massive protests before Chinese Embassies all over the world during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a Chinese spiritual practice founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992.

It was banned by the Chinese government of Jiang Zemin in 1999 after ten thousand of its follower protested human rights abuses, and has been prosecuted in China ever since.

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