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ANSWER:
Following
detention by police at Peking airport
on 5 June, our Embassy in Peking lodged an immediate enquiry
with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and made
considerable efforts to trace his whereabouts. The Embassy
subsequently established that he was unharmed in a hotel room
in Peking and kept in close contact with him. We have now
had confirmation that
was evacuated safely from
Peking on 8 June.
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