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HONG KONG NOV 20, REUTER-REPRESENTATIVES OF PEKING'S

NEW CHIN, NEWS AGENCY, (NCNA) AND LEFT-WING HONG KONG - NEWSPAPERS THIS WWEEK VISITED 13 CHINES) | JOURNANLISTS

IN JAIL HERE, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY.

THE JOURNALISTS WERE IMPRISONED IN THE AFTERMATH OF DISTURBANCES HER) I LAST YEAR, AND THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE DETENTION IN-

PEKING OF THE ŘEUTER CORRESPONDENT ANTHONY GREY,

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THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE VISITS WEJE ARRANGED BY THE

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE POLITCAL ADVISER TO THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT, MR. ARTHUR MADDOCKS; AND NENA OFFICIALS.

HE SAID HE HOPED THIS WOULD RESULT IN THE BRITISH CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN PEKING, MR. PERCY CRADOCK, BEING GIVEN PERMISSION TO VISIT GREY.

THE FORMER BRITISH CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN PEKING, SIR DONALD HOPSON, VISITED GREY ON APRIL 23 AFTER NCNA AND-NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES SAW PRISON) RS HERE ON APRIL 9. THIS IS THE ONLY VISIT GREY HAS BEEN ALLOWED SINCE HE WAS CONFINED-TO-HIS HOUSE ON JULY 21 LAST YEAR,

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THIS WEEK'S VISITS WERE RIPORTED IN TODAY'S LEFT-WING HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS.

THE WEN WEI PAO SAID VISITORS AND PRISONERS EMBARACED,

SHOOK HANDS WARMLY AND- WERE MOVED TO TEARS.

THE NEWSPAPER SAID THE PRISONERS TOLD THE

VISITORS THEY HAD BEEN MALTREATED AND TORTURED, GIVEN MEAGRE

AND POOR FOOD, THIN CLOTHING AND BEDDING AND HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN THE. MEDICAL TREATM) NT- TO WHICH THEY WERE ENTITLED.

- THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT HAS REPEATEDLY DENIED

ALLEGATIONS OF BAD TREATMENT OF PRISONERS AND DETAINDES,

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MEANWHILE THE DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF THE N.C

I.C.N.A., MR LIANG WEI-LIN, HAS CALLED FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEAS){ OF THE 13 IMPRISONED JOURNĀLISTS, THE AGENCY REPORTED.

MR LIANG WAS SPEAKING AT-A MEETING OF THE AGENCY STAFF

TO WELCOME NONA JOURNALIST HSUEH PING, RELEASED FROM JAIL HERE LAST SATURDAY AFTER SERVING TWO

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THIRDS OF A TWO-YEAR SINTENCE FOR HIS ALLEGED PART IN LAST YEAR'S RIOTS.

IN A-HONG KONG DATELINED REPORT, THE AGENCY SAID

MR LIANG TOLD THE MEETING: "AT PRESENT COMRADE LO YU-HO,

A HSINHUA CNCNA) CORRESPONDENT, AND 12 OTH IR PATRIOTIC CHINESE. JOURNALISTS HAVE NOT YET BEEN RELEASED, AND HUNDREDS-

DOF OUR PATRIOTIC COUNTRYMEN ARE STILL IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DARK CELLS.

"THEY ARE ALL INNOCENT. THE HONG KONG BRITISH AUTHORITIES MUST IMMEDIATELY RELEASE THEM".

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