AT least 3,000 activists have been put on a mainland blacklist to stop them disrupting today's Macau handover, a pressure group estimates.
Frank Lu Siqing, director of the Information Centre of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China, said: 'The Hong Kong Government would never say it has such a list but Macau has announced openly that Beijing has given it a blacklist.' He made the comment after the leader of a US-based pro-democracy group was yesterday deported from Macau.
Wang Min, 50, director of China Spring magazine, which is published in San Francisco, was deported to Hong Kong soon after he arrived in Macau.
Macau officers did not explain why he was barred, Mr Wang said.
Holding a US passport, Mr Wang entered Macau by ferry from Hong Kong after flying in from San Francisco yesterday.
'As a democracy activist, I want to report the big event although my viewpoint will be different from that of Beijing,' said Mr Wang, who heads the Alliance for a Democratic China.
