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SPEAKING NOTE
Chong Kwee Sung
IN
HCD 028/1
22 JU 1993
(25)
We have appealed to you on several occasions for more information about Chong Kwee Sung, a Hong Kong businessman who has been detained in China since August 1991, for most of that time in Zhengzhou, Henan Province: next month marks the second anniversary of his detention. The British Embassy in Peking has made similar requests to the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council (HKMAO). Chong's family has also made direct appeals to the public security authorities both in Peking and in Zhengzhou, for an explanation of the legal basis of his detention and for access to him. Throughout the entire two years of his captivity Chong has not received a single family visit.
Chong's daughters, Ivy and Christine, have just returned from their latest visit to Peking and Zhengzhou. As on previous occasions, they failed to elicit any information about their father or the basis for his detention, or about the possibility of access to him. officials at the Ministry of Public Security in Peking told them that their father's case was none of their business. They were turned away from the Public Security Bureau in Zhengzhou on the grounds that it would not be appropriate for any official there to meet them. An officer at a remand centre in Zhengzhou which they visited did however confirm that he was being held there.
We regard this as a very serious case. Despite all our efforts, and those (for which we are grateful) of the NCNA and HKMAQ, neither we nor Chong's family know any more about the legal basis for his detention than we did in 1991. We do not know whether he has been charged; whether there are plans to bring him to trial; or whether the National People's Congress
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