1 Mr. Martin LEE: Sir, during the Second Reading of this Bill,
I shall be extremely brief. The first point I wish to take maki
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is in relation to Section 10 (2) (c) of the Bill, which, in
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effect, gives to the censore power to ban e film or excise any portion thereof, if he is of the opinion that the exhibition of that film in that form is likely to seriously
damage good relations with other territories. Sir, I am opposed to political censorship of any kind and I am glad to
have the support of Mr Helmut Sohmen in this respect,
although he has not been able to speak on this Bill on this
tus occasion, being away from Hong Kong. He
me to convey
his views to this Council.
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Sir, the Hon. Mr Stephen Cheong said that for
many, many years in fact political films or political censorship
has been applied to Hong Kong, but of course he fightly reminded
us that it was in fact a wrongful exercise of power on the
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part of the censor for over ter years. With respect to him, the fact that the people of Hong Kong have long been deprived,
wrongfully deprived of one aspect of the freedom of expression, cannot be a reason why we today should legalize
this long-standing illegal practice.
through these well rehearsed reasons,
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So I do not intend to go
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documented in our Handout during our July 1987, and I will simply state my view on Section 10 (2) (c).
that clause 10 Sir, provided that we are satisfied with action 10 (2)(c), that it will not infringe Article 19 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, then I am prepared to
support it. In order to bring that about, we have to satisfy
ourselves that the law as passed will only give the censor
limited powers to ensure that when he does exercise his
powers to ban a film or excise a portion thereof in order to 34 prevent the exhibition of a film which would seriously damage
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good relations with other territories, he could only do so within the terms of paragraph 3 of Article 19. In other words,
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