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STATEMENT ON 111 VBP'

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1990

DETAINED YESTERDAY AFTER THE TODAY ON

THE 111 VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE COURT RULING ON THEIR HABEAS CORPUS ACTION WILL BE RELEASED THEIR OWN RECOGNISANCE, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

ADDED

KONG

AND

WAS GOVERNMENT

WOULD MAKE A

THAT THE HONG THE SPOKESMAN

COURT RULING, CONSIDERING APPEALING AGAINST THE DECISION AFTER READING THE WRITTEN JUDGEMENT.

RELEASE BY THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT FOLLOWING THE GROUP'S

OF THE IMMIGRATION THE COURT FROM DETENTION UNDER SECTION 13 (D) (I)

DEPARTMENT ORDINANCE, THE 111 HAD BEEN DETAINED TO ENABLE IMMIGRATION TO DETERMINE THEIR STATUS.

DOCUMENTS

"THIS IS NORMAL PROCEDURE WHERE AN IMMIGRANT WITHOUT

THE SPOKESMAN SAID. OR PERMISSION TO LAND IS FOUND IN HONG KONG,'

BEEN

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DEPARTMENT CAN STILL BE

BY IMMIGRATION EXAMINED HAVE "ONCE THEY OFFICERS, AND EVEN IF REFUSED PERMISSION TO LAND, THEY RELEASED AT THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION'S DISCRETION.

"IN THIS CASE, THE EXAMINATION HAS BEEN COMPLETED

RELEASE ON IMMIGRATION CENTRE AND THEY ARE BEING OFFERED RECOGNISANCE."

NOT IS

AT VICTORIA THEIR OWN

..

THE

OVER-TURNED,' "IF THE COURT RULING EXPLAINED, "THEN AT SOME STAGE ACTION MAY BE TAKEN TO REMOVE FROM HONG KONG.'

INDICATED

THAT IT

SPOKESMAN ALL 111

GROUP WOULD NOT

THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT JAPAN, THE COUNTRY TO WHICH THE

ALREADY OF 111 WISHED TO TRAVEL, HAD ACCEPT THEM.

THE

THE

VIEW, GOVERNMENT'S

IN FULL ACCORDANCE

THE SPOKESMAN REITERATED THAT IN

BEEN STAGES TREATMENT OF THIS GROUP HAD AT ALL WITH THE LETTER AND SPIRIT OF HONG KONG LAW.

UPON THEIR RELEASE, THE GROUP WILL BE PUT IN THE OFFICE OF THE UNHCR, THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED.

PENDING THE

APPEAL,

THE

GOVERNMENT

CARE OF THE

HAS OFFERED TEMPORARY

ACCOMMODATION TO THE 111 IN KAI TAK TRANSIT CENTRE,

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