Exiles Denied Entry for Tiananmen Date

Immigration officials in Hong Kong have refused entry to 11 exiled mainland Chinese dissidents invited by local activists to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the crackdown at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. A government statement said the applications were “carefully considered with our established immigration policies and procedures” and considered on their own merits. Officials could not comment on individual cases, the statement said. Several prominent former student leaders, including Boston-based Wang Dan, were invited by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China. The activist group, which Beijing has labeled a subversive organization, has been organizing annual fund-raisers, marches and vigils. Hundreds of activists were killed June 4, 1989, when Beijing ordered troops into the capital to restore order.