Wildlife Defender Deported from Taiwan after Exposing Illegal Government Cetacean Imports

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The Marine Connection, PO Box 2404, London, W2 3WG

 

Tel: +44 (0)20 7499 9196 Fax: +44 (0)20 7409 2133

 

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reg uk charity no. 1062222

 

 

 

 

 

Please take a moment to email and circulate the following:

 

 

 

Our colleague Lee Ann Ford in Taiwan has been working with the Marine

Connection and other NGOs to publicise imports of belugas into Taiwan and to

call attention to the country's involvement in purchasing dolphins from the

Taiji drive

hunts. Ms Ford is now being threatened with deportation for apparently

" bringing the reputation of Taiwan into disrepute " - although it can be no

co-incidence that this comes close on the heels of Ms Ford giving very public

interviews about the situation for marine mammals in Taiwan.

 

 

 

If she is deported there will be no-one left who is able to continue this

work and it would also send a strong message to other nations like Taiwan, on

how to deal with others working on highlighting the issue of captivity and

imports in the future. Please write to the following, explaining that Ms Ford

cares very much for Taiwan and the Taiwanese people and it is for that reason

she wants to help make it a better country. Urge them to intervene, stop Lee

Anne's deportation, and help her continue this vital work in Taiwan.

 

 

 

Deputy Presidents' secretary dswu

 

Legislators' assistant ly59458

 

Contact email for the President (link via this web page)

http://www.president.gov.tw/en

 

 

 

Please copy Lee Ann with your email at: lincngo

 

 

 

Margaux Dodds

 

Director & Co-founder

 

email: margaux

 

" Protecting whales, dolphins & the worlds oceans for future generations "

 

 

 

The Marine Connection, PO Box 2404, London,

W2 3WG

 

Tel: +44 (0)20 7499 9196 Fax: +44 (0)20 7409 2133

 

www.marineconnection.org

 

reg uk charity no. 1062222

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LEEANN FORD [forlee21_2000]

Friday, March 17, 2006 9:18 AM

Billy and Mary

Adam

RE: Taiwan deportation

 

 

 

 

Dear Billy and Mary Adam,

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know if you know who I am, I am Lee-Ann Ford working in Taiwan.

Since my release of the

information to the Taiwanese public on the illegal beluga imports from the

Russian Federation and Taiwan's Hualien Ocean Park's purchases from the Taiji

drives, I have been constantly harrassed, and now I am being deported.

 

 

 

 

 

This is what has happened:

 

 

 

 

*A Canadian conservationist deported out of Taiwan for revealing Taiwan's

participation in the Taiji drives/beluga imports to the Taiwanese public.

 

 

 

 

 

* The speedy deportation. Monday told I was illegal, Tuesday had the

hearing, thursday deported. They started my official deportation date from

today, which is Friday. I have to be out of the country by next Friday.

 

 

 

 

 

*The Hualien

County Council's interview on Wednesday stating that I was illegal even

though I was deemed illegal until thursday.

 

 

 

 

 

* The Legislator Liu, Shou mei distributed a copy of my passport from my

visa application and released it to the public and media, revealing my permanent

address in Canada to the dolphinariums (i'm worried about that).

 

 

 

 

 

The action alert should be sent directly to the President's office. The

website address is http://www.president.gov.tw/en/ a cc of this should be sent

to me at lincngo

 

 

 

 

 

Please also stress to them to reveal the breakdown of events to the Taiwan

representative office, and Canadian consulate in their area.

 

 

 

 

 

If anything, I would like to see my deportation delayed. They are accusing

me of working illegally in my school. A business I have own, was provided a

licence are residency for, for the past four years. How obvious is it that I am

being deported for exactly that less than one month after I revealed the facts

to the public? It's weak.

 

 

 

 

 

If you wish to email me for more information, please email me at

lincngo

 

 

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Lee-Ann Ford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee-Ann Ford

Owner

McCauley EQ & IQ Development Centre

973-# 55-8 Chian Road first section

 

 

Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Office:(011) 886-03-856-2927

 

 

Cell: (011) 886-9154-16254

 

 

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