REFERENCES
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A : Prime Minister's List of September and FCO Aide Memoire of
October
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Mr Gummer's Letter and List
: Chinese White Paper on Human Rights
Peking Tel no 1873 about White Paper on Human Rights
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Harare Commonwealth Declaration
: Amnesty International Report 1991
G:
Background on Hong Kong detainees
BACKGROUND
1.
When the Prime Minister visited Peking in September he spoke
firmly to Premier Li Peng about British concerns over human rights
in China; a list of cases of particular concern was subsequently
handed over. He agreed with Li Peng that dialogue on these issues
should continue. We are seeking to ensure that human rights are
raised at every high level meeting in Peking, London and elsewhere. One Hong Kong detainee (Luo Haixing) was released (ostensibly on medical grounds) after the Prime Minister's visit and two leading dissidents (wang Juntao and Chen Ziming) were moved to better conditions - though there is no evidence that the latter was the
result of the Prime Minister's
2.
representations.
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Despite repeated promptings by the Embassy and reminders by the
Secretary of State during Zou Jiahua's visit (when the Head of FED
handed Song Mingjiang an Aide Memoire spelling out what information
we wanted and an up-dated version of the list) we have still not
received a response to the Prime Minister S list.
handed over during the Secretary of State's visit
unhelpful response that "some had been released,
A previous list
received the
s ome
sentenced.
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