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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1989

PRESS FREEDOM IS OF ENORMOUS IMPORTANCE: GOVERNOR

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PRESS FREEDOM IN HONG KONG IS OF ENORMOUS IMPORTANCE AND IS NO WISH NOR INTENTION OF TRYING IN ANY WAY TO HINDER PRESS FREEDOM, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

COMMENT ON THE

THE GOVERNOR MADE THE REMARKS WHEN ASKED TO POLICE SEIZURE OF NEWS VIDEO TAPES FROM TVB AND ATV TWO DAYS AGO.

SPEAKING ΤΟ REPORTERS AFTER VISITING TUEN MUN DAVID SAID WHAT THE POLICE DID WAS ENTIRELY IN ACCORDANCE LAW.

DISTRICT.

SIR

WITH

THE

USED

IT.

LAW

"THAT IS.

THEY GOT A MAGISTRATE'S WARRANT AND THEY WHETHER OR NOT THE POLICE WISH TO USE THAT PARTICULAR PART OF THE MUST BE, OF COURSE, A MATTER OF JUDGEMENT FOR THEM, SO IT WAS ENTIRELY

HE SAID. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW.

HINDER PRESS

"THERE IS NO QUESTION IN HONG KONG OF A WISH TO FREEDOM. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT PRESS FREEDOM WAS INFRINGED.

IMPORTANT THAT WE INFRINGE PRESS FREEDOM.

KONG. DO

VERY "I THINK IT IS

TO ANYTHING

THOUGHT

GOVERNOR

SHOULD

"

NOT, IN THE GOVERNOR SAID.

HONG

THE

OF

CORRECTLY, ACTED HAD POLICE THE HE ASKED IF

MATTERS OPERATIONAL JUDGE SAID: "IT'S NOT FOR ME TO

AND THAT THE IS IMPORTANT IS THAT WE HAVE LAWS. THE POLICE, WHAT POLICE, LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, SHOULD OPERATE WITHIN THE LAW."

SWIMMER,

DEALT

ASKED FOR HIS COMMENTS ON THE CASE INVOLVING CHINESE MR YANG YANG, SIR DAVID SAID THAT THROUGHOUT, THE CASE HAD BEEN WITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS AND PROCEDURES OF HONG KONG,

BEEN "THAT IS WHAT HAS BEEN UPPERMOST IN OUR OWN MINDS. IT HAS

AN IMMENSE WITH BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN GIVEN DIFFICULT CASE TO DEAL AMOUNT OF PUBLICITY." HE SAID.

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THE

DIRECTOR OF

ASKED WHETHER THERE WAS ANY QUESTION THAT

WHERE A IMMIGRATION HAD EXCEEDED HIS POWERS IN HANDLING THE CASE. THE GOVERNOR SAID: "THE

DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION HAS THE POWER TO DIRECT

SHOULD THAT SOMEBODY PERSON SHOULD GO. HE HAS THE POWER TO DIRECT RETURN TO CHINA.

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HE "HE HAS THE POWER TO USE HIS DISCRETION IF SOMEBODY HAS A VALID

ΤΟ TRAVEL DOCUMENT TO GO ELSEWHERE. AS MR SHOULD GO TO THE UNITED STATES,

DID. YANG

THAT SAY

HE SAID.

TURNING TO PETITIONS

BY

TUEN MUN RESIDENTS AGAINST

PROPOSED THAT IT UP.

FARE INCREASE FOR THE LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT. THE GOVERNOR SAID WAS PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE THAT NOBODY LIKED THEIR FARES TO GO BUT THE LRT. LIKE ALL OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORT IN HONG KONG, MUST WORK ON A COMMERCIAL BASIS.

THAT SOME

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IT DOESN'T, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? IT SIMPLY MEANS "IF OTHER PART OF THE COMMUNITY IS SUBSIDISING IT, 80 IT HAS TO WORK ON COMMERCIAL BASIS," HE SAID.

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