Han's right lung later was removed and he was sent home to die. D.C. Han does not expect an imminent crackdown on dissidents after the hand-over. I don't think anybody can change Hong Kong within a short time. The British government, apparently concerned about legal protection for dissidents, accelerated attempts this year to find third-country homes for them. It has succeeded in locating a country for almost every dissident who wants to leave and is close to securing new homes for the remaining few, sources familiar with the issue said.
Someone now departs almost every week.
Along with the United States and Scandinavian countries, others accepting dissidents include Canada and Great Britain, the territory's colonial ruler until the hand-over. Those who fit the classic Tiananmen Square student protester profile,'' have been the easiest to resettle, said one official familiar with the exits. That includes the husband and wife who will leave this week. He was imprisoned for more than one year in a hard-labor camp after officials accused him of fomenting dissent among students from his province. During that incarceration, he was held in a small room with 10 others, many of them hard-core criminals, and fed a gruel of rice and water.