SPEAKING NOTE
HONG KONG RESIDENT DETAINED IN CHINA: CHONG KWEE SUNG
HMG is very concerned about the case of Chong Kwee Sung, a Hong Kong businessman who has been detained in China since August 1991, for most of that time in Zhengzhou, Henan Province: next month marks the second anniversary of his
detention. The Hong Kong Government first raised this case
with the NCNA in June 1992 and asked for more information and
whether Mr Chong had been formally charged. The British
Embassy in Peking has made similar requests to the Hong Kong
and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council (HKMAO). Mr Chong's family has also made direct appeals to the public security authorities both in Peking and in Zhengzhou, for an explanation of the legal basis of his detention and for access to him. Throughout the entire two years of his captivity Mr Chong has not received a single family visit.
Mr Chong's daughters, Ivy and Christine, have just returned from their latest visit to Peking and Zhengzhou. As on previous occasions, they failed to elicit any information about their father or the basis for his detention, or about
the possibility of access to him. Officials at the Ministry of Public Security in Peking told them that their father's
case was none of their business. They were turned away from the Public Security Bureau in Zhengzhou on the grounds that it would not be appropriate for any official there to meet them.
An officer at a remand centre in Zhengzhou which they visited
did however confirm that he was being held there.
HMG regard this as a very serious case. Despite all of the
Hong Kong Government's efforts, and those of the NCNA and
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