THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3,
1988
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ANOTHER GROUP OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE SCREENED
*
PROCEDURES SEEKERS
FOR WHO
THE GOVERNMENT
HAS COMPLETED
SCREENING ITS VIETNAMESE ASYLUM HAVE ARRIVED IN HONG KONG AFTER JUNE 15 THIS YEAR.
DETERMINING THE STATUS OF ANOTHER 41
OF THE GROUP SCREENED, ONE PERSON WAS FOUND
A REFUGEE CAMP AND HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO OVERSEAS.
TO BE A REFUGEE
TO PRIOR
RESETTLEMENT
BE
WERE
CENTRES
THE OTHER 40, COMPRISING EIGHT GROUPS AND 19 INDIVIDUALS,
IN HELD
DETENTION WILL FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES. THEY PENDING REPATRIATION TO VIETNAM.
ASYLUM SEEKERS
"DETERMINATION NOTICES HAVE BEEN SERVED ON THE BY IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT STAFF," A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID.
"THOSE FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES
OF ADVISED
ORDINANCE,
THEIR
AS
HAVE BEEN UNDER THE IMMIGRATION RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE RESULT WELL AS THEIR RIGHT TO LEGAL ADVICE IN PREPARING THEIR OBJECTIONS.
"THE UNHCR WILL MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO ENSURE THAT IS MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL THOSE WHO NEED IT."
LEGAL ADVICE
SCREENING PROCEDURES WERE THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT THE
DETERMINING REFUGEE CRITERIA FOR BASED ON THE UNHCR PROCEDURES AND
THE 1967 PROTOCOL, STATUS ESTABLISHED UNDER THE 1951 CONVENTION AND
OF
SEEKERS ASYLUM AND TOOK INTO ACCOUNT THE SPECIAL SITUATION VIETNAM.
"STAFF OF THE UNHCR WERE PRESENT DURING SOME OF THE
AS OBSERVERS," HE SAID.
FROM
INTERVIEWS
SO FAR, SCREENING PROCEDURES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED FOR 89 SEEKERS. OF THEM, EIGHT WERE FOUND TO BE REFUGEES WHILE 81 WERE NOT TO THE REFUGEES.
ASYLUM
FOUND
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