No 2 Notices of Questions and Motions: 8th March 1982 4037
301 DEMOCRATIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONG KONG
Mr Robert Parry Mr Martin Flannery Mr Tony Benn
Mr Harry Cowans
Mr Dennis Canavan
Mr Bob McTaggart
Mr Ioan Evans Lallo
Mr Don Dixon
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Mr Michael Martin Mr John Home Robertson Mr Stuart Holland
Mr Ednyfed Hudson Davies Sheila Wright Mr Dafydd Wigley.Cymru Mf Bruce George That this House recognises the merit of the social and community work of Ms. Christine Vertucci among the poor, the homeless, and low income groups in Hong Kong and her campaign for health and safety at work; deplores the decision of the Hong Kong Government to expel her from the Colony without giving a cause for its actions; condemns this arbitrary action and violation of human rights; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to reverse that decision in order to prevent democratic, human and civil rights and freedom of speech and justice in the Colony becoming a mockery and a charade.
As an Amendment to Mr Robert Parry's proposed Motion (Democratic and Human Rights in Hong Kong):
Mr John Spence
Mr Cyril D. Townsend
Sir Albert Costain C
Mr Neil Thorne
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Line 1, leave out from 'House' to end and add 'deplores the consistent denigration
by certain honourable Members of the well-administered Crown Colony of Hong Kong;
and congratulates the Government of Hong Kong for achieving standards of human rights, freedom and a degree of democracy and free speech unequalled by its neighbours.'.
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