The Hong Konger, identified only by her surname Hong, and her two young children
were staying with relatives at a town in Hunan Province when family planning
officials came to their home and said she had to get rid of the child, Hong
Kong's Apple Daily said.
The officials tried to drag Hong to a hospital but her relatives stopped them,
and Hong then contacted Hong Kong authorities who asked Hunan police to
intervene, the report said.
Local officials later apologized to Hong, who arrived in Hunan on June 28 and
was planning to return to Hong Kong yesterday.
For three decades, China has limited most couples to one child to stem
population growth in the country of 1.3 billion people. Critics say the policy
has led to forced abortions.
Hong Kong maintains separate political and economic systems, and the one-child
policy doesn't apply there.
Hong Kong's Immigration Department helped Hong as much as it could, department
spokesman Sunny Ho told reporters. Ho declined to provide details.
A woman who answered the phone at the press office of Hunan's provincial police
department referred questions to the department's immigration control division.
Phone calls to that office didn't go through.
