From: jzhang@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Forward: Shen Tong? (III)
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:27:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <9210111756.AA16110@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> phsjjc@emrycc.cc.emory.edu (JAMES J. CEN) writes:
<Dear Netters:
<
<        THe following is a news article appearing in the front page of the
<October 5 issue of Daily Free Press, the student newspaper of Boston 
<University.  It painted a damaging picture of the Alliance of Hong Kong 
<Chinese in the United States (AHKCUS).  It all started after one of the 
<reporters called Stephen Ng (Wu in Manderin), the Chairperson of AHKCUS, 
<to check what he knew about Shen Tong.
<
<James J. Cen
<Emory University
<

I believe most people here would like to see Shen Tong released.
Whether Shen Tong was on the Chinese Government's "most-wanted
list", or whether he came to the U.S. around June 11, 1989 aboard a 
CAAC flight bearing valid PRC passport and U.S. visa, should be easy 
to check out. Could anybody post some authentic information?

Zhenqin Li
 
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<The Daily Free Press
<(student newspaper of Boston University)
<
<Monday, Oct 5, 1992.
<
<Columbia Professor Questions Shen's Role in China.
<Allies of Imprisoned Student Deny Charges.
< 
<[copied without permission]
< 
<A Columbia University assistant professor charged yesterday that Shen Tong,
<the Boston University graduate student imprisoned in China, falsely 
<presented himself as a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising and 
<endangered other students when he returned to Beijing  this summer,  
<but Shen's BU colleagues said that such rumors are untrue and possibly 
<disinformation. 
< 
<"I am not sure why someone would say these things, but it's my sense that  
<this information is being spread by double agents or some disinformation 
<organization," BU history professor Merle Goldman said. 
< 
<The accusations came from Columbia professor Steven Ng,
<who is also president of the nation wide organization Alliance of Hong Kong
<Chinese in the U.S. 
<  
<Ironically, Ng's organization is lobbying for the release of Shen and  
<the others who were arrested with Shen Aug. 31. Shen was in 
<Beijing to announce the opening  of a Democarcy for China
<office when he was arrested. 
< 
<"I'm not calling him a liar, he just doesn't get the facts straight,"
<Ng said. "Shen was not involved in the leadership of Tiananmen Square  
<and he was not active in the revolution. That's why he could leave  
<the country easily. There were no official warrants for his arrest." 
< 
<"Shen told people he was a deputy leader in the revolution when in fact  
<he was only an aide and a marginal player," Ng added. 
< 
<Ng also charged that Shen put the other students involved in the
<underground democratic movement in China in jeopardy when he did not tell
<them about his plans to hold a Beijing press conference to announce the 
<opening of a Democracy for China [Fund] office. 
< 
<But Michael Berlin, a BU journalism, firmly denied the allegations against 
<Shen, saying that Shen had been on the Chinese goevrnment's most-wanted
<list and had to return China through an "underground railroad."