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1. Goonwy Lover's

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TO BE CORRCULATED

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For circulation in the Official Report

Question No.

There are seven Chinese journalists now serving

prison sentences in Hong Kong. Five of these were

convicted on charges of uttering an inflammatory speech

and of intimidating assembly. They each received a

sentence of three years imprisonment. The sixth was

convicted on charges of unlawful assembly;

possession

resisting

of an instrument fit for unlawful purposes;

arrest and assaulting a police officer. He received a

sentence offfive years imprisonment. The seventh journalist

was convicted on charges involving interference in court

proceedings and of obstructing the police in the performance

of their duties. He received a sentence of two years

imprisonment.

Six other persons connected with the production and

sale of newspapers are serving prison sentences. Five

of these were convicted on various charges of sedition,

attempting to cause disaffection and publishing false news.

Each received a sentence of three years imprisonment.

The sixth was convicted on a charge of possessing a

simulated bomb and received a sentence of twenty-one months

imprisonment.

There are no journalists among the sixteen persons

now being detained under Emergency Regulations.