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HONG KONG : CLOSED CAMPS FOR VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
1.
We spoke. I enclose a copy of the Immigration (Vietnamese Refugees Centres) (Closed Centre) Rules 1982, which were gazetted in the Legal Supplement to the Hong Kong Government Gazette on 7 July.
2.
to you:
The following sections may be of particular interest
(a)
(b)
Sections 7 8 Provision for visits by justices of the peace and centre visitors;
Section 10
Provision for examination and search of all persons and vehicles entering or leaving a centre;
(c)
Sections 12 - 30
General treatment of detainees,
in particular:
(i) section 13
(ii) section 26
searching;
letters;
(iii) section 29 - mechanical restraints;
detainees, in particular:
(d)
Sections 31 37
Discipline and control of
(i)
section 34
description of offences;
(ii)
section 35
punishments;
3.
(iii) section 37 use of arms.
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I would be grateful for your comments as to whether the use of these rules breaches the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
28 September 1982
R J F Hoare
Hong Kong and General Department WH 312
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