JUL-30-1991 09:24 FROM BHC OTTAWA
HONG KONG (AP) - Organizers Monday canceled a conference on democracy in China after several Chinese student activists living abroad were denied entry into this British colony.
The Hong Kong Federation of Students said 17 Chinese student leaders from around the world were to have attended the 5-day conference.
The conference was to have begun Tuesday.
The student federation said 10 Chinese students were refused permission to enter Hong Kong and six more students were held up at the international airport.
The federation claimed the students were denied permission to enter Hong Kong because the Hong Kong government wants to avoid irritating China, which will reclaim the territory in 1997.
Officials of China's official Xinhua News Agency, which speaks for China in the colony, had objected to the conference.
The agency said Hong Kong shouldn't be used as a base for anti-Chinese subversion.
Hundreds and possibly thousands of people were killed June 3-4, 1989, in Beijing when tanks and troops of China's Communist government crushed a broad movement for political freedoms.
Meanwhile, two Chinese women who fled their country following the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters reached the U.S. after hiding on a cargo ship from Hong Kong, an immigration officer said.
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