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Rt Hon Sir Robert Fellowes KCB KCVO
Buckingham Palace
London
SG3 BEY?
2752
Как &
I enclose two petitions to Her Majesty The Queen
forwarded to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by the
Hong Kong Government in April this year.
The petitions are made by a Hong Kong Chinese
citizen Mr Chan Chun-Shan and his family, on behalf of
two of his sons, Mr Chan Kan-Sau and Mr Chan Kan-Cheung.
Chan Kan-Sau and Chan Kan-Cheung were involved in
the brutal murder of a man at a restaurant in Hong Kong
in December 1978. The brothers were found guilty of
murder and sentenced to death in November 1979. Following unsuccessful appeals against conviction and sentence, their death sentences were commuted in the usual way, to life imprisonment early in 1981.
Petitions have been made previously to the Governor of Hong Kong by or on behalf of Chan Kan-Sau and Chan Kan-Cheung in 1983, 1988, 1989 and 1988 and 1989 respectively. All of these petitions have been denied. The cases were last reviewed by the Board of Review, Long
Term Prison Sentences in December 1990 when the board
declined to make any recommendation. The cases will be reviewed again in December 1991.
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