Document #1025432
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on whether the government has
offered temporary furloughs to prisoners who can supply appropriate
guarantors and whether these guarantors would be detained if the
prisoners did not return could not be found among the sources
consulted by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate 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 below the
list of sources consulted in researching this Information
Request.
Sources Consulted
People's Republic of China: Law Reform and Human Rights.
Amnesty International Report
1997. 1997.
Asian Survey [Berkeley,
Calif.]. Monthly. January-December 1997.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1997. 30 January 1998.
Critique: Review of the Department
of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1996.
1997.
Current History [Philadelphia].
Monthly. January 1997-March 1998.
Human Rights in Developing Countries
Yearbook 1997. 1997.
Human Rights Watch World Report
1998. 1997.
ODR. Feuilles d'information sur les pays.
Research Directorate. December 1997.Human Rights Information Package: China.
_____. June 1997. Contextual
Information Package: China.
Resource Centre. "China" country file.
July 1997-present.
_____. "China: Amnesty International"
country file. July 1997-present.
Electronic sources: IRB Databases,
LEXIS/NEXIS.
Oral sources:
One oral source could not provide
information on the requested subject.
Unsuccessful attempts to contact five other oral sources.