DATE=4/5/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-247628
TITLE=CHINA / DISSIDENTS (L)
BYLINE=STEPHANIE HO
DATELINE=BEIJING
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  ACCORDING TO THE CHINESE LUNAR CALENDAR, TODAY/MONDAY IS 
QINGMING (CHING-MING), OR TOMB-SWEEPING DAY -- A DAY 
TRADITIONALLY SET ASIDE TO REMEMBER DEAD RELATIVES.  V-O-A'S 
STEPHANIE HO REPORTS IT HAS BEEN AN EVENTFUL DAY FOR SEVERAL 
DIFFERENT CHINESE DISSIDENTS -- WHO HAVE TRIED, UNSUCCESSFULLY, 
TO HONOR THEIR DEAD LOVED ONES.

TEXT:  JIANG PEIKUN, THE FATHER OF A SLAIN STUDENT DEMONSTRATOR, 
SAYS PLAINCLOTHES POLICEMEN PREVENTED HIM AND HIS WIFE FROM 
LEAVING THEIR COLLEGE CAMPUS TO PURCHASE THINGS TO HONOR THEIR 
SON.

    // JIANG CHINESE ACT -- IN FULL, FADE OUT //

PROFESSOR JIANG SAYS THEIR SON'S ASHES ARE AT HOME, BUT THEY 
WANTED  TO GO OUT TO BUY SOME THINGS HE LIKED TO EAT IN ORDER TO 
HONOR HIM ON TOMB SWEEPING DAY.

THE SON, JIANG JIELIAN, WAS 17-YEARS-OLD WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN 
THE BLOODSHED THAT ENDED STUDENT LED DEMONSTRATIONS ON TIANANMEN 
SQUARE IN 1989.

MR. JIANG SAYS ABOUT A DOZEN POLICE MET THE COUPLE AT THE GATES 
OF  PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY, WHERE THEY LIVE, AND WOULD NOT LET THEM 
LEAVE THE CAMPUS.

FRANK LU, FROM THE HONG KONG-BASED INFORMATION CENTER OF HUMAN 
RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN CHINA, TELLS OF THE CASE OF 
ANOTHER EXILED CHINESE DISSIDENT, WANG XIZHE.

    // LU CHINESE ACT -- IN FULL, FADE OUT //

MR. WANG WAS SUPPOSED TO ARRIVE ON AN ASIANA AIRLINES FLIGHT IN 
BEIJING MONDAY TO PAY RESPECTS TO HIS DECEASED FATHER.  BUT THE 
INFORMATION CENTER'S MR. LU SAYS WHEN THE DISSIDENT STOPPED IN 
SEOUL, HE WAS DIVERTED TO BANGKOK INSTEAD OF BEIJING.

THE INFORMATION CENTER SAYS ASIANA WAS PRESSURED BY BEIJING 
POLICE NOT TO ALLOW MR. WANG TO FLY TO THE CHINESE CAPITAL.

MEANTIME, THE HONG KONG-BASED GROUP SAYS THE WHEREABOUTS OF CHA 
JIANGUO ARE NOT KNOWN.  MR. CHA IS A MEMBER OF THE BANNED CHINA 
DEMOCRACY PARTY AND THE CENTER SAYS HE KNEW OF WANG XIZHE'S PLANS
TO RETURN TO CHINA WITHOUT A PERMIT.  (SIGNED)

NEB/HO/FC

05-Apr-99 3:51 AM EDT (0751 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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