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Mr Hoare HK&GD WH 312
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DEK OPAUSA INDEX
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HONG KONG: CLOSED CAMPS:
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My answers to your questions are as follows:-
(a) No. Even if the refugees understood and accepted
these conditions they would be entitled to expect that they would only be imprisoned in closed camps in a manner which was consistent with their human rights.
(b) If the inmates were in principle and in fact free to come and go as they pleased, although required to iphops accept the camps as their residence, this would avoid
camps
those human rights rules which relate to imprisoned persons. If they were neither imprisoned nor subjected to prison discipline while in the camps, this would, as we explained to Mr Griffiths on 13 October, remove those breaches of the Covenant to which we have drawn attention.
(c) It is not the type of staff which matters but the way in which they are required to behave or do behave.
The questions in your paragraph 3 should be put to Treaty Section of N&T Dept.
2.
7. Bunows
3 November 1982
cc: Mr Edwards, Legal Advisers
CODE 18.77
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F Burrows
Legal Counsellor