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Dear Friend,
          Follows is a statement by Wu'er Kaixi as he attempts to enter Hong Kong on November 24, 2013.   Wu'er Kaixi is one of the ten most wanted student leaders of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China.  In his statement, Wu'er Kaixi declares his intention to turn himself in to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region authority of China.
          Visual Artists Guild supports Wu'er Kaixi's desire to enter China so he can visit his aging parents whom he has not seen for 24 years.  China should grant Wu'er Kaixi's request on humanitarian grounds.
          Ann Lau
          Chair, Visual Artists Guild

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Friends, Hong Kong Citizens,
Greetings!

I, Wu’er Kaixi, am subject to a most-wanted warrant issued by the Chinese government in 1989 by the Beijing Public Security Bureau and promulgated as an edict nationwide by the Ministry of Public Security.

I hereby make an appeal to the Hong Kong SAR and to the world.

I am willing to turn myself in to the Chinese authorities. I urge the SAR government, based on Chinese law, and by my own agreement, to exercise its judicial power and extradite me to the Chinese authorities.

As someone who is wanted by the Chinese government, why am I attempting turning myself in to the Chinese government, and why am I doing it in Hong Kong, which has its own laws, according to the constitutional principle of “One Country, Two Systems?” Moreover, why am I doing this in transit at Hong Kong International Airport? The reason is because it is my last resort. Since 2009, I have made similar attempts in Macau, Japan, and the United States to either enter China or Chinese embassies to face the Chinese government’s charges directly, but I have been denied every time. What I’m doing today is a result of the Chinese government’s absurd act of ordering my arrest, while at the same time refusing to allow me to return.

Assuming the Hong Kong government accepts the Chinese official position, which sees my participation in the 1989 student movement as part of a “conspiracy to subvert the government,” making me guilty of “counter revolutionary incitement,” the Hong Kong government should accept my request and help Chinese government to apprehend me. I understand that the transit area of Hong Kong International Airport is an international zone, but it is also an area within the Hong Kong government’s jurisdiction, and the Hong Kong authorities should at least consider my request to turn myself in.

If the Hong Kong government ...