Falun Gong cult followers stopped Chinese viewers from watching broadcasts of China's first manned space mission when they blocked Sino Satellite, a Chinese TV satellite.

The cult members illegally transmitted signals from 6 pm to 7:45 pm on Wednesday, while many people were trying to watch the space flight programmes, the Ministry of Information Industry said yesterday.

The blocking signals sent by cult activists interfered with the broadcasting of the Shenzhou V flight and other regular programmes of China Central Television (CCTV) and some local TV stations, said the State monitoring centre of wireless communications under the ministry.

The authorities took decisive measures to foil the cult's plot to prevent the Chinese people from watching the space flight programme, said the Ministry of Information Industry.

 The illegal signals originated in Taiwan Province, said the ministry.

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