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The British Foreign Minister,
Box 779, G.P.O.,
Adelaide,
Sth Australia 506. 17th July, 1974.
(The Rt. Hon. Mr. James Callaghan),
Dear Dir.
On Monday night (15/7/74) a
meeting of the Executive Committee of the South Australian Section of Amnesty International unanimously decided to protest to your government at the deport- ation, on June 17th last, of 118 South Vietnamese from Hong Kong to Saigon
Considering the poor record of the South Vietnamese Government in treating its opponents and law-breakers, we feel shocked that your government, and the Hong Kong Government, accepted the assur- of the South Vietnamese Government that the deportees would not be harshly treated. We find that the people fact now being detained at the notorious Con Son prison, where they await trial
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urge your government to make representation to the Government of South Nietnam to ensure that they adhere to promises they made when seeking deportation of the 118 persons. And we urge investigation of the conditions of detention of these people, and of the
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FUND FOR THE PERSECUTED'' The Archbishop of Canterbury, Great Britain Roger Baldwin, President of the International League for the
- Pablos Casals. Puerto Rico Rights of Man, U.S.A. ·
Danilo Dolci, Sicily Professor Erich Fromm, New York and Mexico Lt.-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks, Great Britain J-F. Lalive, Switzerland Professor Salvador
Yehudi Menuhin, Great Britain de Madariaga. Spain,
Professor Guanar Myrdal, Sweden Pablo Neruda, Chile - Alan Paton, South Africa Abbe Dominique Pire, Nobel Prize Winner Mr. Walter Reuther, Inter- nationai President of the United Automobile Workers, U.S.A. Sean McBride, S.C., Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists Professor Z. K. Matthews, South Africa - Philip Noel-Baker, M.P., Nobel Prize winner, Great Britain Professor Giorgio La Pira, Mayor of Florence, Italy, Professor Julius Stone, Australia.
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AMNESTY HAS CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH THE UNITED NATIONS (ECOSOC) AND WITH THE
COUNCIL OF EUROPE.