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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1988

STATUS OF 107 VIETNAMESE ASYLUM SEEKERS DETERMINED

THE GOVERNMENT DETERMINING THE STATUS OF ANOTHER 107 VIETNAMESE ARRIVED IN HONG KONG AFTER JUNE 15 THIS YEAR.

HAS COMPLETED

ITS

SCREENING

PROCEDURES ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO

FOR

OF THE GROUP SCREENED, FOUND TO BE REFUGEES AND HAVE PRIOR TO RESETTLEMENT OVERSEAS.

EIGHT PERSONS IN THREE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO A

GROUPS REFUGEE

WERE CAMP

THE OTHER 99, COMPRISING 20 GROUPS

BE WILL FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES. THEY PENDING REPATRIATION TO VIETNAM.

AND 25 INDIVIDUALS, WERE HELD IN

CENTRES DETENTION

ASYLUM SEEKERS

"DETERMINATION NOTICES HAVE BEEN SERVED ON THE BY IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT STAFF," A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID,

"THOSE PEOPLE FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES

OF

HAVE BERN ADVISED IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE,

THEIR RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE RESULT UNDER THE AS 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 DETERMINING REFUGEE THE 1967 PROTOCOL, OF ASYLUM SEEKERS FROM

THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT THE BASED ON THE UNHCR PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA FOR STATUS ESTABLISHED UNDER THE 1951 CONVENTION AND AND TOOK INTO ACCOUNT THE SPECIAL SITUATION VIETNAM.

"STAFF OF THE UNHCR WERE PRESENT DURING SOME OF THE AS OBSERVERS, HE SAID.

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PROCEDURES SCREENING SO FAR,

HAVE

BEEN

INTERVIEWS

438 400 WERE

COMPLETED FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS. OF THEM, 38 WERE FOUND TO BE REFUGEES WHILE FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES.

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