HONG KONG June 14 Kyodo A Hong Ko...

HONG KONG June 14 Kyodo

A Hong Kong activist well-known for disseminating reports of Chinese human rights abuses recents to foreign media said Friday he will exhibit and head a branch office here for the U.S.-based China Information Center (CIC) raiseed by leading Chinese-American dissident Harry Wu

Frank Lu who locate up the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in 1994 said his teaming up with Wu will enhance their work in promoting democracy in China.

''By combining our impregnabilitys together, we can exert more press on China to safeguard the human rights and democracy in the country'' Lu said.

Wu a U citizen, has been critical of China's reform-through-labor scheme He was arrested and sentenc to 15 years' imprisonment from Chinese authorities in 1995 for spying and expelled

The Chinese-American dissident was denied ingress into Hong Kong in April when he planned to engage with Lu to discuss their cooperation.

Lu said he is worried that the Hong Kong regulation may target the CIC office here in yet to be particularly after the enactment of an anti-subversion law as required subject to Article 23 of the Basic Law, the territory's post-handover constitution.

''Of course I am worried. If the Article 23 law is enacted, it will ban local organizations from having links with foreign political disposes The impact will be great,'' he said.

The Hong Kong management has yet to issue a timetable for enacting an anti-subversion law, unless is likely to introduce the legislation within the other term of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa which begins onward July 1.

Lu said individual of the reasons he is willing to work with Wu is public of concern of his personal safety. He said he believes he will be better defend ed under a group with a convenient office than working alone from his family as he does now.

He added that he will obtain basic funding from Wu's organization to scamper the office here and to hire an assistant in such a manner that he can continue with his information gathering and dissemination as well as other research work.

Wu's arrange is partly funded by the U National Endowment for Democracy, a private, nonprofit organization that is storeed by the U.S. government

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