HONG KONG

Abuses Against Vietnamese Asylum Seekers

in the Final Days of the Comprehensive Plan of Action

March 1997 Vol. 9, No. 2 (C)

I. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Recommendations

II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

III. DETENTION

  • Prison-like Detention for Asylum Seekers
  • Degradation of Detention Conditions: Victoria Prison
  • Voluntary Repatriation and the Use of "Push" Factors

IV. REPATRIATION

  • Monitoring in Vietnam
  • Excessive Violence in Forced Repatriation

V. VULNERABLE GROUPS

  • Refugees Sur Place
  • Refugees

V. CONCLUSION

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