Dokument #1330465
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
A complete accounting of the number of
persons who were sent to prison or labour camps for activities
associated with the 1989 demonstrations in Guangdong province could
not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB in
Ottawa.
However, attached please find an excerpt
from a 1991 report by a Hong-Kong based human rights activist which
provides information on the 1989 pro-democracy movement in
Guangdong and its aftermath. According to this report, all the
leaders of the Guangzhou Patriotic Student Federation were detained
in Guangzhou in July 1989 for activities related to the
pro-democracy movement (Kamm, 7). Of 13 student leaders detained,
two were released (ibid.). The same source also reported that 8
leaders of the Guangzhou Autonomous Workers Union were detained
(ibid.). According to the government, these workers were released
soon after (ibid.). Concerning sentencing of the activists, this
source related that in 1989, Guangdong courts heard ten cases
involving twelve people who were associated with the pro-democracy
movement (Kamm, 8). Four were convicted on charges of
counterrevolution and the others of charges of jeopardizing public
security, robbery and hooliganism (ibid.).
For information on specific cases of
persons known by human rights organizations to be currently
detained for activities related to the 1989 pro-democracy movement
in Guangdong province, please refer to the attached reports from
Amnesty International and Asia Watch.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find attached the list of
sources consulted in researching this information request.
Kamm, John. May 1991. Human Rights
in Guangdong Province.
Amnesty International. April 1991.
The People's Republic of China: Trials and Punishments Since
1989. (AI Index: ASA 17/34/91). London: Amnesty International,
pp. 24-25.
. May 1990. People's Republic of
China: List of People Detained For Activities Related To The 1989
Pro-Democracy Movement. (AI Index: ASA 17/24/90). London
Amnesty International, pp. 5, 10, 14, 27, 31, 38, 57 and 72.
Asia Watch. February 1994. Detained
in China and Tibet: A Directory of Political and Religious
Prisoners. New York: Human Rights Watch, pp. 11-13, 74-75,
95-96 and 151.
. July 1991. Two Years After
Tiananmen: Political Prisoners in China Cumulative Data. New
York: Human Rights Warch, pp. 21-22, 47, 62-63, 79, 95 and
185-86.
Kamm, John. May 1991. Human Rights in
Guangdong Province, pp. 1-10 and Appendix 2 (pp. 1-2).
On-line search and oral sources