Taiwan's religious followers warned against traveling to China amid rising detentions

Taiwan's quasi-governmental Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) on Friday urged followers of the I-Kuan Tao religion to refrain from traveling to China, saying that 16 Taiwanese people, including 11 believers of the Taoist sect, had been detained in the mainland in recent years amid Beijing's tightening control over religious activities.

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