China jails Falun Gong members

A Chinese court has sentenced four Falun Gong followers to prison terms ranging from seven to 16 years for hacking into a cable television network and broadcasting information about the banned group, state media said.

The broadcast on January 1 in a district of the south-west city of Chongqing interrupted regular programming for some viewers and ``had extremely bad social effects,'' the official Xinhua News Agency reported.