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Answers sought over Macau bans

Pan-democrats are collating a list of recent incidents of denied entry into Macau and will send a letter to the secretary for security on Monday seeking a further explanation.

The move follows the blocking of South China Morning Post photographer Felix Wong Chi-keung on Wednesday, when he was trying to cover the trial of disgraced former Macau minister Ao Man-long.

Security chief Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong told lawmakers on Wednesday he had been assured by his Macau counterpart that there was no blacklist and that a number of cases of pan-democrats being denied entry was due to internal security laws.

However, pan-democrats said there must be a blacklist because Wong was not politically active. Civic Act-up lawmaker Cyd Ho Sau-lan said the only reason for denying his entry was because he had been put on a blacklist following an incident involving police in Beijing two weeks before last year's Olympic Games.

Lawmakers will have another chance to seek an explanation on March 4, when the Democratic Party will seek an adjournment debate to discuss the matter.

'How can there be no blacklist?' party lawmaker James To Kun-sun asked. 'Unless the list is actually grey or red, in which case we didn't ask the question properly last time.'

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