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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987

OPPORTUNITY ΤΟ GOLDEN

TRY OUT WHETHER OR "THIS IS A DELETION OF THE SO-CALLED 'POLITICAL CENSORSHIP' WOULD CAUSE ANY TO EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF HONG KONG,

NOT HARM

CAN BE THE

"IF THINGS RỤN OUT OF CONTROL, THIS KIND OF CENSORSHIP CONSIDERED FOR RE-INSTATEMENT IN THE MAIN LEGISLATION. OTHERWISE, BILL SHOULD BE AMENDED TO EXCLUDE 'POLITICAL CENSORSHIP'.

TT

UNNECESSARY BUT AS

I WOULD CONSIDER CONTRAVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM NOT MERELY AS UNDESIRABLE AT THIS TIME A BACKWARD STEP IN HUMAN CIVILISATION,

MOTION WILL LEAD HK TO OPEN CONFRONTATION

THE MOTION THE HON STEPHEN CHEONG SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY) THAT

IF ADOPTED, WOULD RUN A BY THE HON MARTIN LEE ON FILM CENSORSHIP,

PATH OF OPEN CONFRONTATION, GREAT RISK OF LEADING HONG KONG DOWN A WHICH WAS CERTAINLY NOT CONDUCIVE TO HONG KONG'S FUTURE STABILITY PROSPERITY.

AND

SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE

AND IMPROVEMENT A REFINEMENT CHEONG SAID

SEEMED TO BE WHAT EXISTING REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES HAD SOMEHOW BEEN CLEVERLY USED

CONTINUOUSLY ΤΟ

SEEDS IN A TOOL

THEIR EFFORTS SOME AS DISTRUST OF THE ADMINISTRATION IN HONG KONG.

COUNCIL AGAINST THE

MOTION,

MR

OF

SOW

BY OF

THAT HAS BEEN CREATED. GUIDELINES HAD BEEN

HE SAID.

"IN THE MIDST OF THE NEWSWORTH FUROR AND THE THE FACT THAT THE OLD REGULATIONS SMOOTH OPERATION FOR OVER 13 YEARS HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED,"

IN

WHO VEHEMENTLY MORE IMPORTANT, THE IRONIC PART WAS THAT THOSE

DAMAGING THE GOOD OPPOSED THE FILM CENSORSHIP REGULATION CONCERNING RELATIONS WITH OTHER TERRITORIES HAD CONVENIENTLY OVERLOOKED THE THAT THERE WAS APPARENTLY NO SERIOUS COMPLAINTS

OF THE OLD REGULATIONS ACTUAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, HE SAID.

FACT LODGED AGAINST THE AND GUIDELINES

ΤΟ POINTS

THE FACT THAT YEARS ABOUT THE EFFECT OF SUPPRESSING

EVIDENCE AVAILABLE "IN FACT, ALL HARDLY ANYONE IN HONG KONG HAD COMPLAINED IN THE PAST 13 THE REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES HAVING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG," HE SAID.

MR CHEONG