Like other parishioners interviewed, Ms. Gubareva said she supported freedom of religion.
Rose Chao, a spokeswoman for the Taipei city government, insisted that it supported freedom of the news media.
Throughout its history Sinn Féin supported freedom fighters in other parts of the world, and until the late 1990s it condemned the trend toward European unification.
However, Ms Rowling also stressed that she strongly supported freedom of speech, saying: "I think there are truly heroic journalists in Britain".
Sonia Whitaker, of Beckenham, warned that, although the party supported freedom, "we don't support the freedom to harm vulnerable human beings".
In London the troupe shared a stage with the actors Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Ian McKellen and Samuel West, who have all publicly supported freedom of expression in Belarus.
Along with others, he wrote the Flushing Remonstrance in 1657, which supported freedom of religion in the colonies and is considered to have informed the shaping of the First Amendment.
He took the position that demonstrating to Americans in the heartland and Cubans on the island that the exiles supported freedom of speech was more important than making a symbolic statement about pro-Castro artists.
