國際特赦代表7月訪港
國際特赦代表7月訪港
Beijing So silent on fate of dissident
REPEATED requests for the early release of jailed Hongkong dissident
Mr. Lau Shan-ching by London based Amnesty International have been greeted with
silence by the Chinese authorities, writes Stanley Leung.
This was disclosed by the deputy secretary-general of the human
rights group, Mr. Larry Cox, who said that Chinese officials have failed to
respond to pleas for Mr. Lau's release from a Guangdong jail.
Mr. Lau, a Hongkong engineer, was sentenced to 10 years'
imprisonment by a Guangdong court in 1982 for counter-revolutionary charges
which have never been specified.
Mr. Cox said Amnesty had been working hard for his release over the
last few years and had classified him as a prisoner of conscience.
Mr. Cox arrived in Hongkong on Sunday for a five-day visit to lobby
for more human rights protections in the Basic Law after 1997.
He said Amnesty was also concerned that future Hongkong residents be
protected against the detention of prisoners of conscience and vowed that his
group would monitor closely events in the territory leading up to and after
1997. "Our group has a research department to study human rights
violations everywhere, China," he said.
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