Urgent Business: Hong Kong, Freedom of Expression and 1997
Importantly, this was not the first occasion since 1989 that freedom of expression, particularly academic freedom, had been affected by the manipulation of immigration laws or procedures on such political grounds (though, of course, this was the first occasion since the Bill of Rights was in place, and raised the question of the legality of using immigration laws for such purposes). In mid-1990, the government had initially refused to allow entry to a well-known Taiwanese writer, Chen Ying-chen, who had been invited to participate in a seminar on the reunification of China. Ironically, when China bought pressure to bear to allow the writer entry, the government overturned its own decision.
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