Refugee Action
Registered Office:
The Offices,
The Cedars, Oakwood,
Derby DE2 4FY.
Telephone: (0332) 833310
Chairman: Lord Chitnis Director: Julia Meiklejohn
Rt. Hon. Dennis Healey,
Shadow Foreign Secretary, House of Commons, LONDON,W1
please reply to:
307 Chapeltown Rd.,
Leeds 7
(0532)622401
5th February, 1985.
Dear Mr. Healey,
I am
Re: Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong
sure you are aware that at present some 6,000 Vietnamese refugees are being held in prison-like conditions in closed camps in Hong Kong, administered by the colony's Correctional Services Department, having committed no criminal offence.
offence. There are also some 584 Vietnamese in open and closed camps in Hong Kong with close relatives in the UK, who have twice been refused entry to this country once, individually in application and once as a group by the Minister responsible at the Home Office, David Waddington.
This situation is of great concern both to Refugee Action and to constituents of yours, and in other areas of Leeds.
A petition has been organised which it is hoped can be presented to you personally. I understand you are usually in Leeds on the first Saturday of each month, at Cross Gates library. I would be grateful if you would be able to confirm if this is the case on Saturday, 2nd March. If so, I would be very grateful if you would confirm a time on this date when the petition could be handed to you by myself and the Chairman of the Leeds Vietnamese Community Association.
If this date is not possible, we could meet you in Leeds on any date and any place or time of your convenience, over the next month.
I hope very much you are able to take up the issue with the Minister concerned and instigate other action as may be appropriate.
Yours sincerely.
D.Admai
David Adrian,
Team Leader, Vietnamese Programme
A Member of the British Refugee Council
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