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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1990

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HK'S INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER HAS TO BE BORNE IN MIND

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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