TNAG-2605-FCO40-3793-Detention-of-Hong-Kong-residents-in-China-1992 — Page 49

布政司署

香港下亞厘畢道

DIEU

本署檔號 Our Ref.:

PAO(C) 1/3371/86

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Rod Bunten Esq.,

HKD,

FCO.

HKD 015/1

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We recently received a letter from LegCo member Frederick Fung, passing on a request from a Hong Kong resident that we assist his brother, who had been imprisoned in Shenzhen for espionage and involvement in activities concerning June 4 1989. Since S for S had just informed LegCo that "as far as we are aware, all Hong Kong residents detained in China for political offences related to the events of June 1989 have now been released", we were (to put it mildly) alarmed.

However, on closer examination, it is clear that this

is not another case in the mould of Luo Haixing et al. individual concerned is one Tsang Yuk-ming/Zeng Yuming

(曾育明)。 I enclose copies of the translation of the

The

indictment and the Criminal Court Verdict from which you can see that most of the charges relate to espionage activities in the period 1984-1989. His only apparent involvement with June 4th was to provide "enemy spy organisations" with information following the "suppression of the June 4th counter-revolutionary rebellion". Tsang was sentenced to 15 years and is being held in Shaoguan prison (evidently a nest of spies - Wu Jiguang is there too).

Since this was brought to our attention by a LegCo member, I raised it with Chen Guoping on 13 July. I asked if any more information was available about the case, and passed on Tsang's brother's request that the case be reviewed with a view to remission of sentence. Chen gave the predictable stonewall reply. We have undertaken to pass on to Mr. Fung any response, but we are not holding our breath.

(fr