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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1988

HE ALSO SAID THAT IN THE PRE-1997 PERIOD, THE LAWS OF HONG KONG SHOULD INCORPORATE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PRACTICES AND STANDARDS

MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AS

AND THE REFERENCE ΤΟ ARTICLE 19 OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS IN THR CENSORSHIP LEGISLATION WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE TO BE FOLLOWED.

FILM

SAR

"THESE LAWS WILL, HOPEFULLY, BE INHERITED BY THE FUTURE

MAINTAIN GOVERNMENT AND HELP

THE STATUS OF HONG KONG AS AN INTERNATIONAL CITY," HE SAID.

то

AS

EXTENT, IT WOULD STRENGTHEN, TO SOME

THE CONFIDENCE OF THE HONG KONG PEOPLE WHO WERE WORRIED THAT THE RULE OF LAW WAS NOT EFFECTIVE IN THE MAINLAND AS IT WAS IN HONG KONG TODAY, HE ADDED.

MR LEE ALSO SAID THAT IT WAS DANGEROUS ΤΟ CREATE RESTRICTIONS AND CONDITIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

*

CHINESE

A QUOTING

SAYING, "IF THE AUTHORITIES WISH ΤΟ INCRIMINATE A PERSON, THEY WOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT NOT HAVING AN EXCUSE, MR LEE SAID THAT THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF

WHICH CHINA, INNUMERABLE BLATANT SPANNED 5,000 YEARS, THERE HAD BEEN

EXAMPLES OF

THIS.

SOME EFFECTIVE BY THE

HE SAID THAT IF IT WAS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO LEGISLATE CONDITIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG,

то PREVENT ABUSE OF POWER SAFEGUARDS MUST BE SPELLED OUT AUTHORITIES IN THE APPLICATION OF SUCH LEGISLATION.

"WE MUST REMEMBER THAT WE LEGISLATE NOT ONLY FOR OURSELVES ALSO FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS, HE SAID,

BUT

AMENDMENT TO FILM CENSORSHIP BILL EXPLAINED

THE HON YEUNG PO-KWAN EXPLAINED IN THE LEGISLATIVE TODAY (WEDNESDAY) WHY IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT REQUIRING FILM TO "TAKE INTO ACCOUNT" THE PROVISIONS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONCERNING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION WAS BETTER "COMPLY WITH" THE COVENANT.

THAN

COUNCIL CENSORS

COVENANT THEM

TO

REQUIRING

INTO AS THE

ACCOUNT" FORMULA WAS, "COMPLY WITH" FORMULA

IN

BUT

MR YEUNG SAID THAT THE "TAKE

LEGISLATIVE TERMS, AS EFFECTIVE BETTER DRAFTED.

/HIS WAS