Skrivkampanj mot utlämning av nordkoreanska flyktingar

Kina har ett avtal med Nordkorea att med tvång skicka hem alla flyktingar. Att lämna Nordkorea anses som landsförräderi, så de skickas tillbaka till tortyr, fångläger och död.
Kinas regering vägrar att ge skydd åt nordkoreaner eller låta dem passera till ett annat land.

I stället satsar man hårt på att fånga flyktingar, trots att man vet vilka fruktansvärda övergrepp som väntar dem när de återvänder. Kinesiska medborgare som hjälper flyktingar trakasseras eller fängslas av kinesiska tjänstemän.
Kina har undertecknat 1951 års FN-konvention om flyktingars rätt. Konventionen kräver att Kina beviljar FN: s flyktingkommissariat (UNHCR) tillträde till gränsområdet där de flesta flyktingar är gömda, men Kinas regering vägrar och kallar flyktingarna för «ekonomiska migranter».

Skriv ett brev till Kinas ambassadör och be honom uppmana Kinas regering att ändra sin politik!


Ambassadör
Chen Mingming
Kinesiska ambassaden
i Stockholm
Lidovägen 8
115 25 Stockholm


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Asylum for North Korean refugees

Your Excellency,

I recognise there have been many positive developments in your country over the last decade but I appeal to you to urge your government to stop its continuing policy of forced and violent repatriations; sending desperate North Korean refugees back to North Korea where they face torture, imprisonment and sometimes even death.

Please remind your government of its obligations to North Korean refugees under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol.

China should not avoid its responsibilities by wrongly categorising North Korean asylum seekers and refugees as illegal immigrants. Even if North Koreans go to China solely to find food, once there they may face imprisonment on their return to North Korea. This means that many North Korean migrants become ’refugees sur place’ or people entitled to protection as refugees because of the risk of persecution they face should they return.

I respectfully ask China’s government to implement a legal process through which North Koreans can obtain refugee or asylum status in China. I further request that you allow the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) immediate access to the China-North Korea border region to interview asylum seekers.

I also ask that Chinese citizens who assist the refugees are no longer harassed or detained by Chinese officials.

I appreciate China’s concern about a possible influx of North Korean refugees, but I would like to refer you to the UNHCR’s obligation to support China financially with regard to refugees and to open up UN countries for North Korean refugee resettlement.

Please show the world China’s goodwill and leadership by adhering to your obligations to North Korean refugees.


Yours respectfully and sincerely
(ditt namn)


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Ambassadör Chen Mingming
Kinesiska ambassaden i Stockholm
Lidovägen 8
115 25 Stockholm