Any report of reprisals taken against workers who supported the recent student demonstrations in China. Was there a decree asking students to turn themselves in? Date and details of stricter exit controls imposed after the Tiananmen Square events?
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 August 1989 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | CHN1783 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Any report of reprisals taken against workers who supported the recent student demonstrations in China. Was there a decree asking students to turn themselves in? Date and details of stricter exit controls imposed after the Tiananmen Square events?, 1 August 1989, CHN1783, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac709c.html [accessed 21 May 2023] |
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Please find attached a copy of the Issue Paper Recent Student Demonstrations in the People's Republic of China, published by the IRBDC in June 1989. This document should provide answers for the first two questions.
According to a report published in Asiaweek, 30 June 1989, p. 32:
"Officials issued new rules invalidating all previous applications to leave the country. Passport holders were required to reapply at police stations for exit permits in one of a string of measures to seal borders to any student activists and enable the government to reassess all those trying to get out of China. There were reports that anyone trying to get a passport now needed a letter from a supervisor testifying to their ideological purity."
The exact date these regulations were given could not be found among the sources available at present to the IRBDC. However, the abovequoted article reports on the aftermath of the Tienanmen Square confrontations. Reports of the lifting or modification of the abovementioned measures could not be found among the available sources.
