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Foreign & Commonwealth

Office

16 August 1991

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Japan Chapter of Chinese Democratic Front

Rm 605 Ikebuku to Belumi Mansion

Ikebukuro 1-2-6 Toshima-Ku

Tokyo

Japan

Dear

chapteri

London SWIA 2AH

Telephone: 071-

Thank you for your letter, handed to the British Embassy in

Japan, about the conference of the Chinese Student

Federations which was to be held in Hong Kong from

16-19 July. I have been asked to reply.

You ask about the Chinese students who were refused entry to Hong Kong to attend the conference. Although I am not able

to comment on the details of the individual cases, I

understand from the Hong Kong Government that once the

students were denied entry to Hong Kong, arrangements were made for them to leave. Most of the students did leave Hong

Kong. The small number who refused to leave Hong Kong remained at Kai Tak airport but were free to leave at any

time and eventually did so. Your statement that the

students were ill treated by the Hong Kong immigration

authorities or forcefully deported at gunpoint is therefore

completely untrue.

You may like to know that in Hong Kong as in many other

placed, the possession of a visa does not guarantee that a

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