1) Penalty for re-entering China after exiting illegally for a Chinese National. 2) Marriages registered under the Marriage Laws of the People's Republic of China. 3) Penalties for being opponents to the government's economic policies and for being disobedient to the Family Planning Program
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 May 1989 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | CHN0734 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, 1) Penalty for re-entering China after exiting illegally for a Chinese National. 2) Marriages registered under the Marriage Laws of the People's Republic of China. 3) Penalties for being opponents to the government's economic policies and for being disobedient to the Family Planning Program, 1 May 1989, CHN0734, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acf058.html [accessed 21 May 2023] |
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1) For information on your request on the penalty for re-entering China after exiting the country illegally, please refer to the attached response to a previous information request on this subject. Also, refer to the extract of a letter sent by the Refugee Coordinator of Amnesty International to the IRB Documentation Centre's Chief Research.
2) David Lok, General Manager of the Chinese Community Association Ottawa, has informed us that all recent marriages in the PRC have been registered under the current marriage laws of the People's Republic of China. Not all the marriages contracted years ago, however, have been registered due to the lack of an effective and extensive system of registration in past decades.
3) Attached is material referring to penalties for being actively opposed to the government's economic policies and for not complying with the government's Family Planning Program:
a. TSIEN TCHE-HAO. Le droit chinois. Que sais-je? Chapitre IV. "Droit penal". Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1982, pp. 112 a 121.
b. Amnesty International Report. 1988. Amnesty International Publications, London, 1988. pp.153 to 156.
c. Yearbook International Communist Affairs. 1988. Parties and Revolutionary Movements. Hoover Institution Press, California. pp. 156 to 165.
d. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988. U.S. Department of State. Government Printing Office, 1989. pp. 768 to 771.
e. "Family Planning in China". Joyce K. Kallgren. Current History. September 1986. pp. 270 to 272.
f. Amnesty International. Letter from the Refugee Coordinator to the IRB Documentation Centre's Chief of Research.
