DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
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MISS HAU TSUI LING, AU KING CHOR, CHAN YUI TIM,
CHOW SING, IP TAK MING, LAI CHI PING, NG YIU KWOK
AND YUEN KWOK KWAN
SENTENCED TO DEATH IN
CAVEAT
MALAYSIA:
MINISTER
POSSIBLE COMMUTATION PLEA BY PRIME
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The above eight British Dependent Territory
Citizens from Hong Kong were sentenced to death in
Penang on 7 May 1985 for drug trafficking. After
a hearing on 4 May 1989 the Supreme (Appeal) Court
dismissed their appeals. This completed the
judicial procedures.
Their lawyers will be
submitting a plea for commutation of the sentence
to the Penang Pardons Board. The High Commission
in Kuala Lumpur will be sending to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs a petition for clemency on
humanitarian grounds in support of this plea.
Such pleas by HMG are standard practice.
In 1986 the Prime Minister made a personal "last
ditch" plea to the Malaysian Prime Minister on