A Singapore court sentenced seven members of the movement to four weeks jail in March for obstructing police and fined eight others for holding an unauthorized rally, a midnight vigil for dead adherents last December 31.

Lawyers representing the seven had pleaded for leniency, citing the prospect of their persecution if they were to return to China.

``The Singapore government has been kind enough to understand this and they have sort of approved for them to choose the country they wanted to go,'' local Falun Gong spokeswoman Lim Geok Kiaw told a news conference.

Lim said all four Chinese members had left Singapore and had not returned to China, but gave no indication of where they had gone or when.

The three others jailed were Singapore permanent residents.

Government officials were not immediately available for comment.

Falun Gong is legally registered in Singapore but all organizations require a permit to assemble in a public place.

The local Falun Gong group called the July 7's news conference to express its concern over recent reports of a mass suicide of followers at a Chinese labor camp.

A Hong-Kong human rights group reported on July 3 that 16 people had attempted suicide at the Wanjia camp on June 20 and 10 may have died. China said on July 5 three Falun Gong followers had died and eight were saved in a mass suicide attempt at the camp.

Falun Gong followers based overseas denied there had been a mass suicide, saying more than 15 female adherents were tortured to death at the camp.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, combines meditation and exercise with a doctrine loosely rooted in Buddhist and Taoist teachings. The group has disavowed any political aims.

It first shocked Beijing with a 10,000-strong protest in April 1999 and was banned in China later that year.