Beijing threatens British academic

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By Melody Chen

The Chinese Embassy in London threatened a British professor over invitations to officials from the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau to attend a Cambridge symposium, a British peer revealed during a debate in the House of Lords earlier this week.

Lord Faulkner of Worcester, who is the vice chairman of the All-Party Group on Taiwan, disclosed on Thursday that Barry Rider, the retiring director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at London University, has been under great pressure from the Chinese Embassy because of the Taiwanese participants at a symposium he organized.

The Chinese officials threatened to force the symposium to be canceled and told Rider that he would lose his job, according to a letter the professor wrote to Faulkner on July 4.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/07/11/2003178501

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