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香港下亞厘畢道
CUNUTITOTTUNNO
BY FAX
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD HONG KUNG
Our Ref.: B/3/19/6/1
HKC 241/2
來函楷號 Your Ref.:
25 Novembe: 1991
Mr Shaun Riordan
Hong Kong Department
FCO
Dear Shann
1
UN Convention against Torture
As you
may
preparing legislation
aware:,
be
which
Hồng
Kong
is currently vill permit the UN Convention
against Torture to be applied to Hong Kong.
We recently learned from a BBC
World
Service
broadcast which seemed to report that the UK was about to appear before a UN
Torture in Geneva whose task is
(a)
(b)
-
We are
Committee against
to monitor the lec islative steps (where necessary) particular subscribing states to discharge the obligations them by the Torture Convention;
had taken imposed on and
(apart from
the foregoing) to see whether was being observed by such
that Convention states.
interested in
any comments the Committee would make on the relevant UK legislation especially.. sections 134 138 of the Crim..nal Justice Act 1988 because our proposed legislation general.ly follows the 1988 Act.
G
I should be grateful. if you could chedlu with your colleagues in the United Na :ions Department to verify if the BBC report is soundly based. If it is, we would welcome
if any details,
ava ilable, about the hearing, especially
Committee's comments 0:2 the legislative steps undertaken by the .K.
about
the
Yours ever,
уто
(John C.Y. Leung
for Secretary for Constitutional Affairs
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