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In the event,
Thank you for your letter of today's date. Mr. Ng/and Mr. Lau Shan-Ching were also accompanied by Mr. Lau Bing sum and Mr. Philip Baker.
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I enclose:
a letter to the Prime Minister handed over by the group to which I should be grateful for a draft Private Secretary reply;
a memorandum on human rights in China and Hong Kong;
a list of arrests in China;
a number of other self-explanatory documents.
Mr. Lau Shan-Ching (through the interpreter) described his time in prison. He did not add substantially to his written
account.
I set out our policy on human rights in China in some detail and enquired about the remaining Hong Kong detainees. As far as I could make out, Li and Lai were (and still are) in the same prison as Lau Shan-Ching.
Lau Shan-Ching said:
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(ii)
the Hong Kong government did not do enough to protect the human rights of its citizens. Nothing had been done to enquire about him after his detention. The only action at that stage had been taken by his parents;
the Hong Kong Police had in 1989 beaten up demonstrators outside the New China News Agency and had refused to pursue subsequent complaints about their behaviour.
I said I would enquire on both these points. Mr. Lau also suggested that there should be more directly elected seats on LEGCO. I explained the problems.