Hong Kong Free Press
Date: 11 August 2018
By: Jennifer Creery
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in Taiwan has said that it is helping a group of Taiwanese students planning to sue the Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board for labelling them as being from China. MOFA is in talks with the Norwegian government on the issue, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported on Thursday.
According to the group, led by an international human rights law student named Joseph, Norwegian immigration used the term “Kina” on their residency cards – which, in Norwegian, means “China.” The students filed a petition against the board in March last year, saying that the term was a diminution of their identity and contravened measures to protect “personal identity” in the Norwegian constitution, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights.
A student representative told HKFP that MOFA has kept in touch with them through its representative office in Sweden. [FULL STORY]