Subject: CND-EP Posting, November 19, 1990

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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 90 16:22:55 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
				November 19, 1990
 
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1. Demostration in Paris to Protest the Sentence of Li Hai-Tao...........8

2. Norway: PRC Embassy in Oslo Refused to Renew A Student's Passport....15

3. Chinese Exiles Expelled from Australia Embassy in Hanoi,
   The Australia Officer in Charge Was Demoted afterwards...............20

4. Japanese Gov't Violating Rights of Chinese Students in Japan.........55

5. CND Q&A Column on Visa/Job/Legal Matters.............................45
   I. Foreign PR Bearing PRC Public Affair Passport
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1. Demostration in Paris to Protest the Sentence of Li Hai-Tao
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>From: CND Europe Correspondent Ye Haiyan  [email-masked] Fri Nov 16 1990

	14 Nov. 1990, FDC, a Chnises democratic organization based in Paris,
protests the 4 years condemnation of Li Haitao in Wu Han (China).  Li Haitao
is a Ph.D candidat for philosophy in Wu Han University.  He was the chairman
of the independent post-graduated student union of Wu Han University during
'89 democratic movement.  After 14 monthes of detention unlegal, he was
condemned to 4 years prison in 29 Aug. 1990.
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2. Norway: PRC Embassy in Oslo Refused to Renew A Student's Passport
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>From: [email-masked]  Date: 16 Nov 90 19:02:06 GMT
Source: soc.culture.china

According to the AFTENPOSTEN,one of the nationwide newspapers here in Norway,
Wang bo,the chinese student leader got refusal on his renewing passport when
he applied at Chinese embassy in Oslo.

Mr.Wang has contacted embassy for explanation on his case, but he got refused.
And I am sure that lots of Chinese students who took part in demonstration
around june 4. in Oslo will soon or later meet this kind of problems.

Mr.Wang has been studying in Norway for about 10 years.  He has got Ph.D in
computer science. And now he is working as an engineer in a private company
in Oslo.  He is considering to apply for Norwegian nationality if he cannot
any explanation.
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3. Chinese Exiles Expelled from Australia Embassy in Hanoi,
   The Australia Officer in Charge Was Demoted afterwards
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>From: [email-masked] (J.Gao)	  Date: 18 Nov 90 10:03:24 GMT
Source: soc.culture.china

According to media report here in Canberra, two Chinese nationals sought
refuge in the Australian Embassy in Hanoi shortly after the TAM Massacre in
June 1989.  While the Charge d'affaires notified her home Government and the
UN Commissioner for Refugee matters in Viet Nam awaited instructions from
Australia, the chief administrator of the Embassy, Mr Ian Solin, resorted to
force to expel the two Chinese nationals from the Embassy ground.  Wielding a
stockwhip and an air pistol, Ian Solin succeeded in bluffing and forcing the
Chinese asylum seekers out into the street.

Ian Solin was later fined $A 300.00, and demoted to the highest of the next
scale.	His outrageous behaviour and the insufficient punishment have raised
uproar in the Foreign Affairs Department.

As can be expected, the Chinese nationals here in Canberra are very much
enraged.  Response to this event is being prepared by the National Union of
the Chinese Students and Scholars in Australia and the FDC Canberra Office.
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4. Japanese Gov't Violating Rights of Chinese Students in Japan
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>From: A CND Reader in Japan **@***.***-u.ac.jp Sat Nov 17 07:42:34 1990

Source: Associated Press

Washington-- A US-based human rights organization has accused Tokyo of forced
repatriation and other abuses against Chinese students in Japan who face 
reprisal at home for backing the democracy movement. An Asia Watch report on 
the probelm was sent to the Japanese Embassy last month for transmission to 
Tokyo but there has been no reply, according to Mike Jendrzejczyk, the group's 
Whashington director.

Meanwhile, some Japanese lawyers have organized a group to defend the rights
of Chinese students and scholars waiting out their mother country's internal
trumoil in Japan, he said. 

Jendrzejczyk also said a member of the House of Councillors, Akiko Domoto, has
written to Asia Watch that she is working on the problem. Asia Watch is a
private, nonpartisan organization affiliated with Helsinki Watch and other
groups monitoring adherence to human rights standards set forth in the 1975 
agreement on East-West security and cooperatin. 

I said in its report that the Japanese government "has forcibly repatriated 
some Chinese claiming to be dissidents. It has also obstructed the processing 
of requests for asylum, refugee status and visa extension for Chinese fearful 
of returning to China and has consistently disregarded evidence that they are 
likely to suffer arrest and imprisonment if they return.

"Second, the Japanese government has failed to protest the systematic
harrassment and intimidation by Chinese Embassy officials of Chinese students
who participated in protest activities or who have joined dissident 
organizations in Japan," Asia Watch said. 

I added that this created the appearance of conddoning infringements of free 
expression, assembly and association. 

Asia Watch did not say how many Chinese students were forcibly repatriated 
from Japan but it said there has not been a single case of a Chinese student 
being granted political asylum in Japan. 

Forced repatriation of anyone in Jeopardy is a clear human rights violation, 
the report said. It quoted Japanese and Chinese critics of Tokyo policy as 
saying the government was reacting to pressure from business circles eager to 
resume trade and industrial ties with China or to immigration officials 
concerned about an influx of illegal laborers.

The report estimated that about 15,000 Chinese are studying at colleges and 
universities in Japan and another 48,000 are enrolled at language schools. 
Of these, more that 11,000 extered Japan in 1989.  There were 6,500
applications for visa extensions filed by Chinese in the same year.

Asia Watch called on Japan to halt involuntary deportations and to join other 
countries in demanding a list of all dissidents arrested,  imprisoned and
released since June 4, 1989, the day of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
The Japaense Embassy in Beijing, it added, should locate every Chinese citizen
forcibly repatriated from Japan since then in order to monitor his or her
situation.
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5. CND Q&A Column on Visa/Job/Legal Matters
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From: CND Q&A Editor Bo Xiong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90

NOTE: All discussions on this column are for readers' information only, one
      should consult his/her lawyer or proper professionals before handling
      his/her own visa/job/legal matters.

I. Foreign PR Bearing PRC Public Affair Passport
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Q: From [email-masked] Sun Nov 11 11:46:16 1990

   1) If a Chinese scholar has obtained green card, does he still need to
   apply for an exit permit when he visits China and returns to US?
   Here the question is that his passport comes from the Ministry of Foreign
   Affaires and bears the stamp of public affairs. He went abroad under the
   category of "Zhe Fei Gong Pai"  (funded by himself, sent by government ),
   even he did not get any financial support from Chinese government or his
   original university.
   2) Should he return to China with this passport, or with the document from
   INS?  If he goes back with the passport, will there be any trouble for him
   to come back?  What is your suggestion? Thank you.

A: 1) PRC Citizen Exit & Entry Code does not specify such an situation.  PRC
   overseas consular officers said those who got foreign PR and bear PRC
   public affair passport should have their passport changed to private affair
   one (see CND Q&A No.8 for the procedure).  There were indeed several cases
   heard that US PR's with PRC public affair passport went out of PRC without
   hassel, but it might just be occassional/irrelevant events.	ANYONE could be
   stopped at PRC passport control station if the person is thought of holding
   "unproper combination" of foreign PR certification and PRC public affair
   passport, or, if the person is reported that s/he WAS a "governme-dispatched
   student" (not necessarily government-funded) by someone else or his/her
   original domestic unit.  Please be aware of that, one's claim of "self-
   funded" will NOT be accepted by PRC authorities if the person bears PRC
   public affair passport (dark brown cover, most were stamped "for public
   affairs" if issued after Septmber, 1986), unless the passport issuance
   office or the person's domestic unit verifies so.
   2) US permanent resident may apply for "The Certificate to Return to the
   United States",i.e. so-called "White Book" - a two-year valid international
   travel document replacing one's passport (contact INS regional office to
   apply for it), but one has to apply for PRC entry with the White Book. It's
   very unlikely that PRC consulate will issue a visa to a PRC national with
   White Book, instead, they'll ask you the reason for doing so.
   The suggestion is, to play safely, a PRCer with foreign PR should have his
   /her PRC passport changed to private affair one.

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