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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989

AS A

A

HE SAID THAT PUBLIC ANGER AND CONCERN OVER WHAT WAS SEEN

ON THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION, POSSIBLE POTENTIAL RESTRAINT

SURELY BE REGARDED AS THROUGH THE MEDIA AND IN OTHER WAYS, MUST

TO CONTINUE HEALTHY AND HEARTENING SIGN THAT HONG KONG PEOPLE WANTED

THAT HAD PROVIDED ALMOST TO ENJOY THE UTMOST FREEDOM IN A SOCIETY ALL THE FREEDOMS EXPECTED IN A DEMOCRATIC TERRITORY.

OF THE MEDIA AND WITHOUT PUBLIC INTEREST

NOT THE LEAST OF THESE HAD BEEN THE RIGHT

MATTERS OF OTHERS TO ISSUE INFORMATION ON FEAR OF PROSECUTION, MR MCGREGOR ADDED.

TERRITORY IN ASIA AND THE MR MCGREGOR NOTED THAT NOT EVERY

IN HONG KONG TO WHICH EXISTED WIDE FREEDOM PACIFIC ENJOYED THE

PARTICULARLY TO

ISSUES, PUBLIC DISCUSS TO PRINT AND PUBLISH,

THE POLITICAL ISSUES OR THOSE HAVING SOME BEARING ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEM.

DEVELOPMENT OF

TIMES, IT WAS MANIFESTLY

SHOULD

DO NOTHING THE FREEDOM

HE STRESSED THAT IN THESE CHANGING

THAT

HONG THE

KONG GOVERNMENT IMPORTANT ENDANGER, OR TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION OF ENDANGERING, THEM RIGHT OF PEOPLE AND THE MEDIA TO DISCUSS AND TO REPORT.

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AND

то A DEMOCRATIC

HONG SHAPING

KONG'S A FREE SOCIETY WBRE

FINALLY, HE SAID THAT A FREE PRESS WAS VITAL

WHO THOSE

WERE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND THAT FUTURE WOULD BE WISE TO LEARN THAT FREEDOMS IN WORTH MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO RETAIN,

CONSTANT REVIEW OF LAW TO SAFEGUARD HUMAN RIGHTS

OF

THE PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE CAN THE REPEAL OF SECTION 27 OF

THE BEGINNING

PEOPLE'S HONG KONG ONLY BE TAKEN AS THE END OF REPULSION AGAINST PROVISIONS THAT UNDERMINED THEIR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS,

CHE-HUNG SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DR THE HON LEONG

(WEDNESDAY).

TODAY

(AMENDMENT)

TO

SPEAKING IN THE RESUMED DEBATE ON THE PUBLIC ORDER BILL 1988, DR LEONG SAID WHETHER WE LIKED IT OR NOT, HONG KONG WAS

POLITICAL COME ACROSS MORE PUBLIC SENTIMENTS RELATING TO THE CHANGING SITUATIONS AND CONSERVATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DURING THE RUN-UP TO 1997.

HE THEREFORE URGED THE GOVERNMENT AND THE

IN

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL CONSTANT REVIEWS ON GREY AREAS TO BE ALERT ENOUGH AND TO MAKE EXISTING LEGISLATION THAT MIGHT INFRINGE BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.

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