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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
Mr. Brian Parkyn (Bedford); To ask the Secretary of
State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many
persons are being kept in prison in Hong Kong without
trial; how long they have been interned, how many are
Chinese and how many Hong Kong citizens; and if he will
ask the Hong Kong Government either to release them or
send them for trial.
DRAFT ANSWER:
16 December 1968.
Sixteen persons are at present held in Hong Kong under
detention orders issued under Regulation 31 of the Emergency
(Principal) Regulations. The orders have been in force
for periods varying from six months to fifteen months in
one case; this order having been renewed on its expiration.
All the detainees are of Chinese race; six claim to have been
born in Hong Kong. The answer to the fourth part of the
Question was given in reply to a Question by the honourable
Member for Richmond on the 10th of December 1968