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need to treat them in accordance with the law. My ac
said that even in the case of one of the returned
immigrants who had been convicted as a smuggler in
absentia and sentences to death, his capital sentence
had been commuted to life imprisonment on 3 July.
8. Mr Hattersley thanked the Foreign Minister for
these assurances and hoped that given press and
tha hi
parliamentary interest, the Foreign Minister would sce
no objection to public reference being made to this
conversation should it be necessary. Mr Bac readily
agreed.