PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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.
Mr. Anthony Royle,
NO,
Sir.
The Hong Kong Prison Rules require the Medical Officer
[to
the Gemmissioner
ever
isens for
to make recommendations
transmission to the Governor/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
authorities
sentence. The Governor has invariably released a prisoner
such on receipt of a recommendation from the prison aut
for remission in these circumstances,
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