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Hong Kong
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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La Mr. Brian Parkyn (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many persons are being kept in prison in Hong Kong without trial; how long they have been interned, how many are Chinese and how many Hong Kong citizens; and if he will ask the Hong Kong Government either to release them or send them for trial.
16 December, 1968.
MR. GORONWY ROBERTS
Sixteen persons are at present held in Hong Kong
under detention orders issued under Regulation 31 of the
Emergency (Principal) Regulations. The orders have been
in force for periods varying from six months to fifteen
months in one case; this order having been renewed on its
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All the detainees are of Chinese race; expiration.
claim to have been born in Hong Kong. As regards the
last part of the Question I would refer my honourable
Friend to the reply my honourable Friend the Parlia-
mentary Under-Secretary gave to the honourable Member for
Richmond on the 10th of December 1968.
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