Taipei - Two overseas-based Chinese dissidents who flew to
Hong Kong Saturday to try to protest China's holding the Beijing
Olympic Games were denied entry and deported to Taipei Saturday
night, press reports said Sunday.
Pan Qing and Qin Jin, who have New Zealand and Australian
citizenship respectively, came to Taiwan a few days ago to visit
friends, and flew to Hong Kong Saturday morning to join a march to
protest China's holding the Olympics, the Central News Agency (CNA)
reported.
They were detained at the Hong Kong International Airport until
Saturday evening and were put on a flight bound for Taipei.
Hong Kong airport authorities said the pair were denied entry
according to Claus 13 of Hong Kong's immigration law.
Pan is the chairman of the China Freedom & Democracy Party while
Qin is the vice chairman of the Federation for a Democratic China.
They said they will hold activities to demand China honour its
pledges made to the International Olympic Committee and quickly
improve human rights.
The two, who have been barred from returning to China, had
planned to go to Hong Kong to protest China's breaking its pledges to
improve human rights made when Beijing won the right to host the 2008
summer Olympics.
Since 2006, the China Freedom & Democracy Party has collected
10,000 signatures from inside China for a petition which demands
China 'stop holding the wicked Olympics, but should take action to
improve its human rights.'
In the run-up to the August 8-24 Beijing Olympics, China has
tightened control to bar government critics from entering China and
disrupting the Beijing Olympic.
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