HK Prisoners in China Part 3
HK Prisoners in China Part 3 It was through such a group that members of Liu Sanqing's family found out he had been detained. In that instance the Government acted only as a go between for inquiries between the British Embassy in Peking and the Chinese authorities. The group was informed in a letter from the Canton People's Court that Mr. Liu has been tried and convicted for conspiring to overthrow the Government and sentenced to 10 years. What makes the ordeal unbearable for many families is the months spent not knowing what has happened to missing people. There are no late-night phone calls. "We've received letters from distressed relatives and friends of people who went to China and simply disappeared," said Mr. Francis Lau, who set up a committee to help rescue Mr. Liu shortly after his 1981 disappearance in Canton. The one-time student activist and teacher said former political prisoners now consider him a Samaritan. One young man came to see hi...