1978; the petition by Yaumatei boatpeople in 1979; the Sai
Lau Kok incident in 1979; and the On Lok Chuen incident in
1979 all belonged to this category.
3. Labour issues--- Workers in Hong Kong have been known to
foreign industrialists as being hard working and obedient,
and they also praised by the local Government for these
'virtues'. Hong Kong is also 'famous' for its lack of
protection for workers' rights. Any industrial action of
Advocacy for workers' rights will threaten away foreign
investments and will not be tolerated by the Government.
The CTV case belonged to this category.
Not only were the actions taken in the above events by
the Government barbarous, but a repressive law-- the Public Order
Ordinance was enacted to legitimize its suppression of human rights
in Hong Kong •
The United Kingdom ratified the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights on 20 May 1976, and submitted the part
of its report covering the Dependent Territories, including Hong Kong, on. 10 November 1978. We feel that the report concerning Hong Kong did
not represent the real situation about civil and political rights in
Hong Kong and this compels us to write up the present report in order
to bring the problems concerning justice and human rights in Hong Kong
to the attention of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations.
This report will be devided into three parts. Part 1 deals
with the major events in the past few years which highlighted the
suppression of human rights by the Government. There will be a brief
description of each event followed by analysis and we shall indicate
how specific provisions in the International Co-venant on Civil and
Political Rights were violated by the Government during these events.
Part 2 will be an analysis of the Public Order Ordinance to show how
the Law itself contradicts the Co-venant. In part 3, we try to present
the administrative structure of Hong Kong and the present economic and
political situation here, so as to figure out why the events occurred
under these circumstances. Since the reports on different events were
written by different persons, so they might not follow a defined form;
we hope that this will not affect the understanding of the contents.
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