1991-08-14 15:55 SECURIT BRANCA
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布政司署
香港下亞風華道
**** OUR REF:
(64) in SEC 11/4/20
KESK Your Ref :
David Powell Esq.
British Embassy
Chancery Division
No 1 Ichiban-cho,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
OVE 200
2074 7.02
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
159
Gill
14 August 1991
HKBOGI/1
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Deave Davil,
Refusal of entry to student delegates : letter from the Japan Chapter of
the Chinese Democratic Front
As Hong Kong's immigration policy falls on my schedule, the Political Adviser has shown me your letter to the Hong Kong Department.
Your reply to the 'Chapter' was entirely in line with the position we have maintained in dealing with similar approaches in Hong Kong and elsewhere, We greatly appreciate your helping us.
Although you did not leal the delegation to expect a reply to their letter, I cannot let pass their assertion that the delegates "were violently pushed around by the Immigration Authority" and that some of them were forcibly deported to Taiwan at gun point. Both charges are untrue. None of the delegates were deported. But some were refused permission to land. They received all due courtesy, and were allowed to make telephone calls to friends, relatives, and lawyers in Hong Kong and overseas
We made it clear to them that, whilst they were refused permission to land, they were free to leave on the first available flights out of Hong Kong to the destinations of their choice, Those who wanted to go to Taiwan did s> a: their own written request in order to attend a conference there. Hong Kong immigration officers do not carry guns and none of the delegates were 'threatened' at any time.
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