HKE 061 / 1
Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
16 August 1991
д
Japan Chapter of Chinese Democratic Front
Rm 605 Ikebuku to Belumi Mansion
Ikebukuro 1-2-6 Toshima-Ku
Tokyo
Japan
Dear
chapteri
London SWIA 2AH
Telephone: 071-
Thank you for your letter, handed to the British Embassy in
Japan, about the conference of the Chinese Student
Federations which was to be held in Hong Kong from
16-19 July. I have been asked to reply.
You ask about the Chinese students who were refused entry to Hong Kong to attend the conference. Although I am not able
to comment on the details of the individual cases, I
understand from the Hong Kong Government that once the
students were denied entry to Hong Kong, arrangements were made for them to leave. Most of the students did leave Hong
Kong. The small number who refused to leave Hong Kong remained at Kai Tak airport but were free to leave at any
time and eventually did so. Your statement that the
students were ill treated by the Hong Kong immigration
authorities or forcefully deported at gunpoint is therefore
completely untrue.
You may like to know that in Hong Kong as in many other
placed, the possession of a visa does not guarantee that a
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