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The attached Question by Mr. Maurice Orbach (Stockport, South)
is for oral answer on Monday, 27 January. The Parliamentary Office advises that Notes for Supplementaries are not required since the Question will not be reached.
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Although we had some information relevant to this question in
paragraph 2 of Hong Kong telegram No.2175 of 12 November, 1968, we felt it necessary to consult Hong Kong again (our telegram No.59) and have drawn for the answer on the further information supplied in Hong Kong telegram No.69.
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Hong Kong has never published the names of persons detained, either under the Emergency (Deportation and Detention) Regulations or under Regulation 31 of the Emergency (Principal) Regulations. There is no legal requirement that they should do so, and this is the case in the emergency legislation of other dependent territories. There is good reason to believe that in fact no colonial territories have published the names of detainees (e.g. Kenya, Cyprus) although in the time available it has not been possible to establish this from
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Thus non-publication seems to rest on practice rather than specific reasons. Nevertheless there are, in the case of Hong Kong, reasons why publication should be avoided. In the case of the detainees held pending deportation under the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance or the Emergency (Deportation and Detention) Regulations there are none so held at the present time it is politically undesirable to draw attention to the fact that Hong Kong is unable to effect deportations to China. In the case of the "confrontation" detainees (all of whom were eventually held under Regulation 31 of the Principal Emergency Regulations) there was at the time a certain political advantage to be gained by non-publication, as set out in paragraph 2 of Hong Kong telegram No. 69.
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