From The Minister of State
The Hon Francis Maude MP
Ted Rowlands Esq MP
House of Commons
London
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CIVIL LIBERTIES IN HONG KONG
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
25 June 1990
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Thank you for your letter of 3 June to Douglas Hurd,
enclosing one from Mr Robert Archer on behalf of the Catholic
Institute for International Relations and Hong Kong Link, about the prosecution of certain individuals in Hong Kong
under the Summary offences Ordinance.
As you will appreciate, these matters are sub judice, pending
further court hearings, and for this reason I cannot comment
on the particular circumstances of the specific cases quoted
in Mr Archer's letter.
Mr Archer describes the relevant laws as "trivial". I would
like to make the general point that restrictions in Hong Kong
on the use of loudspeakers and the collection of money in
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