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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

Noon on

La Mr. Frank Allaun (Salford, East): To ask the

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of those imprisoned or detained following the disturbances in Hong Kong in 1967 have been kept in solitary confinement, and for how long; and how many are at present held in solitary confinement.

19 December, 1968.

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Leeds. 187.12

There is no provision for solitary confinements such under

Hong Kong legislation, A punishment of separate confinement for

a period not exceeding twenty eight days may, however, be imposed

for offences against prison rules

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No prisoner convicted in connection with the disturbances is

I will send to my undergoing separate confinement at the present time. It has not -

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No detainees have been kept in solitary or separate confinement.