EN CLAIR
HONG KONG TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
TEL NO.BIS 8
UNCLASSIFIED
9 MAY 1969
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BIS8 FOLLOWING STATELENT ISSUED BY HONGKONG GOVERNMENT AT
TWENTY HUNDRED HOURS HONGKONG SUMMER TIME TODAY COLON
ELEVEN PERSONS INCLUDING THREE WOMEN WHO ARE SERVING
SENTENCES IN PRISON OF BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE YEARS FOR
CRIMES COMMITTED DURING THE NINETEEN SIXTYSEVEN.
DISTURBANCES HAVE TODAY FRIDAY EACH
HAD THEIR SENTENCES REDUCED TO AYE MAXIMUM OF THREE REPEAT
THREE YEARS STOP SUBJECT TO THEIR GOOD CONDUCT AND MAXIMUM REMISSION THEY SHOULD ALL BE RELEASED FROM PRISON BETWEEN
JULY AND DECEMBER THIS YEAR PARA WARRANTS REDUCING
THEIR SENTENCES WERE SIGNED TODAY BY GOVERNOR AFTER
HE HAD CONSIDERED AND ACCEPTED
THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRISON BOARD OF REVIEW IN RESPECT
OF THESE PRISONERS PARA IT IS AT DIRECTION OF GOVERNOR THAT BOARD OF REVIEW IS CURRENTLY EXAMINING BACKGROUND
OF ALL SUCH PRISONERS WHO HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO SERVE
TERMS OF NOT REPEAT NOT LESS THAN FOUR YEARS IMPRISONMENT
PARA BOARD
OF REVIEW WAS SET UP TEN YEARS AGO TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO
GOVERNOR IN RESPECT OF ADULT PRISONERS SERVING LONG
SENTENCES AND YOUNG PRISONERS SERVING AYE YEAR OR MORE
IN PRISON PARA LAST YEAR BOARD OF
REVIEW RECOMMENDED FORTY FOUR YOUNG PRISONERS SERVING
SENTENCES OF ONE YEAR OR MORE SHOULD HAVE
HILICHIL
/ SENTENCES REDUCED