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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
TELEGRAM NUMBER 183
21 MARCH 1978
CONFIDENTIAL
YOUR TELEGRAM 159: CONFRONTATION PRISONERS.
THERE REMAIN IN PRISON 115 MEN AND WOMEN WHO MAY BE SAID TO BE
CONFRONTATION PRISONERS'. ALL OF THESE WERE ORIGINALLY SENTENCED
TO FOUR YEARS IMPRISONMENT OR MORE.
2. SOME OF THE PRISONERS WERE SENTENCED FOR OFFENCES INVOLVING
TWO CR MORE OF YOUR CATEGORIES. IN THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS
THEY HAVE BEEN PUT INTO THE CATEGORY OF OFFENCE FOR WHICH THEY
RECEIVED THE LONGEST SENTENCE:-
(A) VIOLENCE
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(B) POSSESSION OF OFFENSIVE WEAPONS (EITHER PERSONAL POSSESSION
OR BEING ON PREMISES WHERE SUCH WEAPONS WERE FOUND), 87
(C) POSSESSION OR USE OF EXPLOSIVES.
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(D) NON-VIOLENT OFFENCES
5.
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No.51
HKK 1/12
/ TOTAL 115.
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