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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1990

THIS COULD BE DONE BY A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, AND ENDORSED THE RECOMMENDATION PUT FORWARD BY THE LEGCO AD HOC THE BILL OF RIGHTS.

HE

THAT THE

HE

FULLY

GROUP

ON

BILL

SHOULD RIGHTS OF CONSIDERED ALSO ENTRENCHED AND BE GIVEN PARAMOUNTCY OVER ALL OTHER HONG KONG LAWS.

BE

ON THE REMARKS

TIE DEATH MP MCGREGOR EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR

HE WAS ALSO IN PENALTY MADE BY THE HON MARTIN BARROW, SAYING THAT FAVOUR OF REMOVING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FROM EXISTING LEGISLATION.

MR MCGREGOR ASKED

TO THE GOVERNMENT

SEEK IN CONCLUSION,

OF THE BILL DISCUSSION WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ON THE INCLUSION

AND T OBTAIN AGREEMENT ON OF RIGHTS IN HONG KONG LEGISLATION ENTRENCHMENT AND SOME FORM OF PARAMOUNTCY,

AND

ESTABLISHING PUBLIC

FREEDOMS

WILL BE

"CHINESE AGREEMENT WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO

HUMAN RIGHTS HONG KONG'S THAT CONFIDENCE MAINTAINED LONG AFTER 1997," HE STRESSED.

PARTS OF BASIC LAW HAVE MORE TO OFFER THAN BILL OF RIGHTS

*

*

HON

THERE ARE AREAS IN WHICH THE BASIC LAW HAS MORE TO

TU ELSIE OF

THE RIGHTS, HONG KONG BILL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE

OFFER SAID IN

THAN

THE

THE

OF

FROM VOTING ON MRS TU, WHO SAID SHE INTENDED TO ABSTAIN

NOT INCLUDE ANY MOTION ON THE BILL OF RIGHTS, SAID THE BILL DID THE MOST ESSENTIAL ARTICLES OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (ICESCR).

HAND,

INCLUDED MANY LAW, ON

OTHER THE SHE SAID THE BASIC

THE ICESCR IN RIGHTS TAKEN FROM THE COVENANT, AND ACTUALLY INCLUDED

KONG "AS APPLIED TO HONG ITS ARTICLE 39, ADDING THAT THE COVENANT

THROUGH THE

OF SHALL REMAIN IN FORCE AND SHALL BE IMPLEMENTED THE HK SAR".

LAWS

THE BILL OF ON SUGGESTIONS THAT WE SHOULD ASK CHINA TO ALLOW

SHE A RIGHTS TO HAVE SUPERIOR STATUS OVER OTHER ORDINANCES, MRS TU SAID

ΤΟ WERE

SUCH CONSIDER THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT

BASIC THOUGHT EVEN IF

LAW BY REQUEST, WE WOULD NOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING SUPERIOR TO THE ADOPTING A HALF-HEARTED HONG KONG BILL OF RIGHTS.

BODIES NOTING THAT THE ISSUE AS TO HOW FAR THE LAW ENFORCEMENT

CIVIL RIGHTS COULD CARRY OUT THEIR DUTIES WITHOUT INFRINGING ON SOME

TU SAID WAS STILL UNDER DISCUSSION BY THE DEPARTMENTS CONCERNED, MRS

HUMAN RIGHTS AND PUTTING THE THE THIN LINE BETWEEN IMPLEMENTING

AND TRIAD ACTIVITY IN OUR PUBLIC AT RISK FROM

OF SOCIETY WAS NOT AN EASY LINE TO DRAW. BUT, SHE ADDED, IT MUST BE DONE, OTHERWISE CORRUPT AND CRIMINAL ELEMENTS WOULD DEPRIVE US RIGHTS.

CORRUPTION CRIME,

ALL OUR

MRS TU ALSO

COMMISSION ENLARGED THE BUREAUCRACY BUT DID LITTLE TO ALLEVIATE INJUSTICES.

A HUMAN SAID THAT THE SETTING

SHE HONG KONG. HOWEVER, COMMISSION WAS LONG OVERDUE IN

ORNAMENT EXPENSIVE SHOULD NOT BE JUST ANOTHER

UP OF

RIGHTS

SAID,

THE THAT

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