TNAG-0111-FCO40-147-Detainees-and-prisoners-following-19671968-disturbances-1969 — Page 79

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(10207) Dd.391413 3m 10/67 G.W.B.Ltd. Gp.863

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for ORAL answer on..

Hong Kong Dear.

дерг

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

Noon

La/Co* Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and

Commonwealth Affairs, if he will now recommend the Hong Kong Government to suspend for one year Regulation 31 of the Emergency (Principal) Regulations which gives them powers to detain persons for a period of one year without trial, without expressing any reason, and to continue this process at the end of the year.

20 January, 1969.

Tues, I

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Arattanowe a

No, Sir.

Mor Wilkain Whittock

Regulation 31 of the Emergency (Principal)

Regulations will be continued in operation only for so

long as is necessary.

سا

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