CYPHER CAT A
IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 2276
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
18 DECEMBER 1960
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REFERENCE YOUR TELEGRAMS 1657 AND 1661.
(1) THE PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE WHICH IS PART OF THE PERM-
ANENT LAW OF H.K. CONTAINS A NUMBER OF SECTIONS WHICH CONSTIT-
UTE OFFENCES.
IN ALL CASES A BURDEN OF PROOF RESTS ON THE
PROSECUTION. AS PART OF THE PERMANENT LAW THE ORDINANCE IS
IN CONTINUOUS USE.
(2) CAD THERE IS NO PROVISION FOR SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AS
SUCH UNDER HONG KONG LEGISLATION BUT THERE IS A QUOTE SEPARATE
CONFINEMENT UNQUOTE. THIS IS A DISCIPLINARY MEASURE, AWARDED
UNDER PRISON RULES WHEREBY THE OFFENDER MAY BE SUBJECTED TO
SEPARATE CONFINEMENT FOR A PERIOD NOT EXCEEDING 28 DAYS.
NO VISITORS ARE PERMITTED DURING THAT PERIOD NOR MAY THE .
PRISONER EXERCISE THE USUAL PRIVILEGES BUT LETTERS ARE ALLOWED.
THERE IS NO DISTINCTION IN OUR PRISONERS BETWEEN PRISONERS
CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES ARISING OUT OF LAST YEAR'S
DISTURBANCES AND THOSE CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES ANISING
OUT OF OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES. IT IS THUS DIFFICULT, AT SHORT
NOTICE, TO PROVIDE THE STATISTICS YOU REQUEST. HOWEVER,
AT THE PRESENT TIME NO PRISONER IS UNDERGOING SEPARATE CON-
FINEMENT.
(B) AS FAR AS DETAINEES ARE CONCERNED FOLLOWING THE DIS-
TURBANCES IN HONG KONG IN 1967 NO DETAINEES HAVE BEEN KEPT
IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, THEREFORE THE QUESTIONS REGARDING
LENGTH OF TIME DETAINEES HAV BEEN KEPT IN SOLITARY CONFINE-
MENT AND THE NUMBERS AT PRESENT HELD IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
DO NOT AKISZ,
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No.31 19 DEC 1968
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