Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY NG 561 of 1998
BETWEEN: WEI CHEN
Applicant
AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
Respondent
JUDGE: DOWSETT J
DATE OF ORDER: 3 NOVEMBER 1998
WHERE MADE: SYDNEY
THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. The application is refused. 2. The applicant is to pay the respondent's costs of the application. Note: Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with in Order 36 of the Federal Court Rules.
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY NG 561 of 1998
BETWEEN: WEI CHEN
Applicant
AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
Respondent
JUDGE: DOWSETT J
DATE: 3 NOVEMBER 1998
PLACE: SYDNEY
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT The applicant was born in China on 25 April 1970. She is married with two children. Her husband and children remain in China. She arrived in Australia on 13 February 1997 and has subsequently made an application for a protection visa. The circumstances which she says led to her departure from China and to her desire to obtain a protection visa are as follows. She says that she worked as secretary to the general manager of a company and that she realised that he was deeply involved in corruption. In July 1996 she wrote a letter to the procuratorate reporting his corruption and asking that he be investigated. Her employer subsequently disclosed to her that he knew that a complaint had been made against him and that he assumed that she was responsible. He said that he was not frightened of her and that he didn't care if she complained again. He said that he had friends in appropriate places. The applicant says that she was frightened and that subsequently two police officers came to her residence and said that her employer was a famous entrepreneur of good reputation, that she had no evidence against him, that she should not make charges of this kind and that if she did she would be prosecuted for spreading false reports.
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