2nd November 1970
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"La/Co.
Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will direct the Hong Kong Government, as an act of clemency, to free those long-term prisoners suffering from incurable illness.
No. 50W
MR. ANTHONY ROYLE
No, Sir. The Hong Kong Prison Rules
require the Medical Officer to make recommen-
dations whenever he considers that the life of
any prisoner will be endangered by his
continuance in prison, or that any sick prisoner
will not survive his sentence, or is totally or
permanently unfit for prison sentence. The
Governor has invariably released a prisoner on
receipt of such a recommendation.