Chen Yonglin, the Chinese diplomat who defected last month, has been granted a protection visa.
Nice to see the Australians doing the right thing for once.
Tools for democracy
Themes:
New Zealand
- Forest & Bird
- Gordon Campbell
- Greater Auckland
- Imagine My Relief
- Imperator Fish
- Kiwipolitico
- Lefthandpalm
- Media Law Journal
- NZ Council for Civil Liberties
- NZ Open Government Blog
- Proactively Open
- Public Address
- Pundit.co.nz
- Reading the Maps
- Republican Movement
- The Apocrypha of Noah
- The Progress Report
Overseas
Friends & Others
Blog Archive:
-
▼
2005
(1564)
-
▼
July
(149)
- Kiwi Carnival #4
- Candidate Survey: Offsite response
- Participate in your democracy
- Pressure
- Evicted
- And another one...
- Submit!
- And they didn't even have to bomb anyone...
- The Eleventh Planet
- Candidate Survey: Twenty-Fifth Response
- Submission
- Interesting website
- Utterly vile
- Climate change bombshell
- Incentives, behaviour, and empiricism
- Calculations
- The stopgap solution II
- Industry training
- Passed and failed
- Jaafari to America: get out
- New billboard
- Time up for the Marriage bill
- The consequences of climate change
- Unprecedented?
- New kiwi blog
- Candidate Survey: Twenty-Fourth Response
- Motions
- Labour's tertiary policy
- New kiwi blog
- Smacking and marriage
- Kiwi Carnival Reminder
- Thinktank: election coverage
- Grassroots Worm
- Bearing fruit
- No wonder they don't want people to see
- Shameless
- We have a date
- Failed policies
- Another cartoon
- The stopgap solution
- Supporting tolerance
- It's the little things...
- Paying attention to bigots
- Summary execution II
- Dancing with the Green Fairy
- New Kiwi blog
- New Fisk
- Reporting on a crime
- Summary execution
- Loons
- Putting our money where our mouth is
- A drop in the bucket
- London Again
- New Fisk
- Digesting the Social Report
- Sporting tours and human rights
- Augmenting Hansard
- War crimes and command responsibility
- Coming clean
- "Compromise" is not a dirty word
- Dodging the topic II
- Dodging the topic
- The fight for the soul of America begins
- Strike
- A toast to freedom
- Fatwas and the war of ideas
- Justice for torture
- The advertising campaign Labour should be running
- Fixed election dates
- Hiding behind process
- Borrowing for tax-cuts
- Means subverting ends
- ACC reaches a new nadir
- Consistency on smacking
- Johannson on the election
- United Future's list
- New Fisk
- G8: The rich renege
- The Iraqi regime is now arresting bloggers
- A gentlemen's game
- Kiwi Carnival #3
- Trinity
- New Fisk
- Henry Olonga in Auckland
- Turning nasty
- Kiwi carnival reminder
- We can stop the tour
- Fortuin on Mugabe
- Ominous rumblings in Fiji
- Henry Olonga in Wellington
- Reducing emissions
- Reforming the Security Council
- Submission
- Remembering Srebrenica
- Corporate blogging
- Coming together for tolerance
- Zimbabwean voices against the tour
- Introducing Don Brash
- Last-minute
- Something to go to in Wellington
-
▼
July
(149)
1 comments:
People do realize Chen's allegation of Chinese spy kidnapping a Victoria man, as support for his political asylum bit, was proven false:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1422324.htm
"An Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer has told a Senate hearing that no evidence was found to support claims by Chinese defector Chen Yonglin about an abduction of a Chinese man."
AU gvt did the right thing to reject his application.
It is also understandable why Chen received a humanitarian protction visa. Otherwise AU gvt would have to send Checn back to China, to face security charges (something our own government workers would face under the same circumstances.)
But of course, when it comes to China, it's "persecution"...
Posted by Anonymous : 8/16/2005 08:53:00 AM
Post a Comment
(Anonymous comments are enabled).