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On the 19 December 1968, Mr. Whitlock replied to a Parliamentary Question by Mr. Allaun concerning the award
of the punishment of separate (solitary) confinement
to persons in detention and to prisoners serving sentences
in Hong Kong for offences in connection with the 1967
disturbances in the Colony. In the course of his reply
the Minister stated that no detainees had been kept in
solitary or separate confinement. So far as convicted
prisoners were concerned, the Minister undertook to obtain
and send to Mr. Allaun details of any such prisoners who
may at any time during their sentences have undergone this
punishment.
2.
We have now heard from the Governor (Hong Kong Tel.
No. 2287) that none of the prisoners in question has under-
gone separate confinement (the term "solitary" confinement
is not used in Hong Kong).
The Minister is accordingly
now in a position to write to Mr. Allaun as he promised,
and the draft is attached.
Hjemmara
Hong Kong Department.
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