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REFERENCES

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A : Prime Minister's List of September and FCO Aide Memoire of

October

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Mr Gummer's Letter and List

: Chinese White Paper on Human Rights

Peking Tel no 1873 about White Paper on Human Rights

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Harare Commonwealth Declaration

: Amnesty International Report 1991

G:

Background on Hong Kong detainees

BACKGROUND

1.

When the Prime Minister visited Peking in September he spoke

firmly to Premier Li Peng about British concerns over human rights

in China; a list of cases of particular concern was subsequently

handed over. He agreed with Li Peng that dialogue on these issues

should continue. We are seeking to ensure that human rights are

raised at every high level meeting in Peking, London and elsewhere. One Hong Kong detainee (Luo Haixing) was released (ostensibly on medical grounds) after the Prime Minister's visit and two leading dissidents (wang Juntao and Chen Ziming) were moved to better conditions - though there is no evidence that the latter was the

result of the Prime Minister's

2.

representations.

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Despite repeated promptings by the Embassy and reminders by the

Secretary of State during Zou Jiahua's visit (when the Head of FED

handed Song Mingjiang an Aide Memoire spelling out what information

we wanted and an up-dated version of the list) we have still not

received a response to the Prime Minister S list.

handed over during the Secretary of State's visit

unhelpful response that "some had been released,

A previous list

received the

s ome

sentenced.

and

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