Hong Kong Denies Entry to 2 Tiananmen Protesters

"HONG KONG — Two leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests said Wednesday that they had been denied entry to Hong Kong to attend the funeral on Saturday of Szeto Wah, a founder of the territory’s democracy movement.

The two, Wang Dan and Wu’er Kaixi, who both played major roles in the student-led democracy movement in Beijing, said the Hong Kong government had rejected their visa applications to attend the funeral.

“I am extremely disappointed and saddened,” Mr. Wu’er said Wednesday in a telephone interview from Taiwan. He said that he and Mr. Wang planned to hold a news conference on Thursday in Taiwan to speak about the Hong Kong government’s decision."



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