11 March 1992
CONFIDENTIAL
HKD 015/1
2 MAR 1992
S
J S Wall Esq Private Secretary 10 Downing Street
LONDON
SW1A 2AA
WEDADZ
LETTER FROM MR STEPHEN NG
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Thank you for your letter of 5 March concerning the request from Mr/Stephen Ng that Mr Lau Shan-Ching should call on the Prime Minister.
Mr Lau is a Hong Kong resident who was released on
26 December last year after serving 10 years in China for
He featured on the Prime Minister's
political offences.
offen
list of detainees handed to the Chinese during the visit
to Peking in September. Unlike Mr Lou Haixing, whom the
Chinese released shortly after the Prime Minister's
intervention, (and whom the Prime Minister met on
7 October), Mr Lau was obliged to serve out his full
10 year term, allegedly because he refused to admit his
crime.
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