Exiled labour activist Han Dongfang has secured Hong Kong permanent residency and an SAR passport, seven years after he was expelled from the mainland.
Mr Han, 37, a major figure of the 1989 democracy movement that ended in the Tiananmen Square massacre, applied for permanent residency early in August and it was approved by the end of that month.
He has already used the passport three times to attend labour conferences in Germany, Canada and the United States.
He was refused permission to re-enter China in 1993 after receiving medical treatment in the US, and his passport was revoked. He was allowed to stay in Hong Kong on a working visa.
Mr Han is a former railway worker who, during the pro-democracy protests that swept China in 1989, formed the country's first independent labour union since 1949.
After the crackdown, he was jailed for 22 months on counter-revolutionary charges before going abroad for medical treatment.
