(Clearwisdom.net) In the evening on April 14, in a news program "Asian Pacific News" of its Chinese broadcast to China, the Asian Pacific region and Greater Paris, Radio France International (RFI) reported that Latvian Olympic Bronze Medalist Mârtiòð Rubenis is on a 3-day hunger strike to protest the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong.

The report said that Latvian Mârtiòð Rubenis started a 3-day hunger strike on April 14 to protest the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong. Rubenis won Latvia's first Winter Olympic medal at Torino.

Rubenis told Latvian National Radio that he had gotten into touch with some Falun Gong practitioners for more than a year. He said that he wanted to protest the persecution [on behalf of the practitioners] with the hunger strike.