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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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La Mr. Leo Abse (Pontypool): To ask the Secretary
of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, why the cases of the 54 Chinese detained without trial under the Emergency Regulations has not been brought before the Hong Kong judiciary.
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17th December, 1968
In whelkam Whitlock
The procedure laid down by Emergency Regulations makes no
provision for persons detained under those regulations to be
brought before the Judiciary. The persons concerned were dealt
my with under Emergency Regulations for the reasons given in/reply
to a question by the honourable Member for Richmond on the
10th of December. Sixteen now remain in detention.
lot 86-7 Vol.775.
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