HONG KONG June 26 Kyodo The Forei...

HONG KONG June 26 Kyodo

The Foreign Correspondents bludgeon (FCC) of Hong Kong voiced business Wednesday over freedom of dialect in the territory after couple of its guest speakers faced enigmas entering Hong Kong within a week.

Perry Link, an American co-editor of the controversial work ''Tiananmen Papers,'' was held up and questioned through Hong Kong immigration for 45 minutes at the airport Wednesday before being allowed entry

Link was invited through the FCC to speak in succession self-censorship in academia and journalism onward Thursday at one of its forums in succession changes to Hong Kong five years after the former British colony recured to Chinese rule forward July 1, 1997.

The questioning of Link came after Chinese-American human rights activist Harry Wu was denied a visa to go into Hong Kong for an FCC forum upon freedom earlier this week.

''As an organization dedicated to freedom of expression, we fear that Hong Kong's immigration department has started impinging upon our efforts to encourage exhibit debate and discussion about Hong Kong's future'' an FCC statement said.

Wu who was formerly arrested and sentenced to 15 years in jail in China for spying still was later expelled from the rural parts took part in the FCC discussion Tuesday via telephone

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