WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1990
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HK'S INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER HAS TO BE BORNE IN MIND
* * * * * *
AND INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER WE NEED TO BEAR IN MIND THE OPEN
IN CONSIDERING OF HONG KONG, AND TO MONITOR TRENDS AROUND THE WORLD,
RIGHTS, THE QUESTION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN RELATION TO THE BILL OF
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THE HON MARTIN BARROW SAID (WEDNESDAY).
IN THE
TODAY
OF SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTION IN THE DEBATE ON THE BILL
HONG KONG HAD BEEN RIGHTS, MR BARROW SAID WHILE DEATH PENALTIES IN
SINCE 1966, THERE IMPRISONMENT
WERE ROUTINELY COMMUTED TO LIFE
A PHILOSOPHY OF
ADVOCATED MANY PEOPLE
STRONGLY WHO CLEARLY RETRIBUTION, A BASIC "EYE FOR AN EYE" APPROACH.
OCCASION WHERE THE CONSIDER SHOWING POPULAR
MR BARROW SAID THIS MIGHT, HOWEVER, BE AN
COULD COUNCIL GOVERNMENT AND THE LEGISLATIVE LEADERSHIP, RATHER THAN FOLLOWING WHAT WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE VIEW.
ANY COUNTRY THAT HE SAID THERE WAS NO CONVINCING EVIDENCE IN THE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY HAD A SPECIAL DETERRENT EFFECT.
THE RIGHT MR BARROW SAID WHILST FUTURE GOVERNMENTS WOULD HAVE
PUNISHMENT AT THIS TO LOOK AGAIN AT THE ISSUE, ABOLITION OF CAPITAL TIME WOULD MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT TO RE-IMPOSE IT IN THE FUTURE.
BILL OF RIGHTS IN LINE WITH CHINA'S COMMITMENT
CHINA'S
HON
IN LINE WITH
DR THE THE IDEA OF A BILL OF RIGHTS IS FULLY
LAW, BASIC COMMITMENT IN THE JOINT DECLARATION AND THE LEONG CHE-HUNG SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY),
DR
OF
THE
THE
AS
BILL OF RIGHTS, SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTION ON THE
RIGHTS AND LEONG SAID CHINA'S COMMITMENT WAS TO ALLOW THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF CIVIL AND POLITICAL
RIGHTS CULTU AL INTERNATIONAL COVENANT
SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, ALREADY APPLIED IN HONG KONG, TO REMAIN IN FORCE AFTER 97.
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WITH THE AND IT WOULD
WAS ALSO CONSISTENT OF THE THE NOTION
TRANSITION WELL-RECOGNISED "THROUGH-TRAIN" CONCEPT OF
BILL
ENHANCE THE SUCCESS OF THE "ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS" POLICY, HE SAID.
"ALLOWING SUCH A BILL IS ALSO THE BEST AND THE CHINA CAN DO FOR HONG KONG PEOPLE AND TO MAINTAIN HONG CONFIDENCE, HE SAID.
THING PEOPLE'S
SIMPLEST
KONG
AS SOME
IDEOLOGICAL TO FASHION
"THIS BILL SHOULD IN NO WAY BE REGARDED FOREPLAY FOR ACADEMIC DISCOURSE BUT IS THE BEST WE CAN DO HUMAN RIGHTS GUARANTEES IN LAW, BEFORE AND AFTER 1997," HE ADDED.
/DR LEONG