BBC Monitoring: Barred Taiwanese Woman Accuses Hong Kong of Rights Abuses


April 30, 2004

A Taiwanese woman who has been denied access to the territory for a Falun Gong conference has accused the Hong Kong government of human rights abuses.

(He Xiue) and three other Taiwanese Falun Gong members were barred from entry at the airport yesterday morning. Ms He claimed that she had been injected in her leg before being deported but immigration officers had refused to explain the injection. A local Falun Gong spokesperson is Hui Yei Han.

(Hui Yei Han) First of all they were being searched. And when there was nothing special being found out, they had been detained there and asked questions. And one of them, a lady, Ms He, was being (words indistinct) and she felt that an injection was given to her. When she asked what injection that was, the two ladies who were giving the injection to her did not answer. (End of recording)

In reply, an Immigration Department spokesman said it had acted according to the law and the department's policies which prohibit any medicine from being administered to anyone barred from entry.

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