CONFIDENTIAL
Note No. 9
VISIT OF PARLIAMENTARY UNDER-SECRETARY, MR. ROYLE,
TO HONG KONG
OCTOBER 1970
CONFRONTATION PRISONERS
Number of Prisoners
There are now eighty prisoners still serving
sentences in Hong Kong for offences committed during the
disturbances in 1967. By 1974 all but seven (including
two with life sentences) will have been released,
Sick Prisoners
2.9 In May this year we learned from other sources that
local Horg Kong Communists were discussing with Feking
the question of sick prisoners. In the same month two
delegations visited the Colonial Secretariat on behalf
of sick prisoners. We are informed by the Colonial
Secretariat that six confrontation prisoners (including
one of those mentioned by the delegations) are now
suffering from severe illnesses. In brief, their names,
sentences and illnesses are:-
Chau Chu-Ming (6 years : cancer),
Yeung Wai (8 years : severe neurological pain),
Chan Sai-Kit (8 years : blindness in both eyes
and severe headaches),
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/Fu Yuk-Fat