CYPHER/CAT A
PRIORITY HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 120
SECRET
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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
6 FEBRUARY 1969
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HWR3/2
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YOUR TELEGRAM 74: PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION.
I SUGGEST THAT THE REPLY SHOULD BE ON THE LINES THAT THE TERM
*LOCK ING-IN' IS NOT UNDERSTOOD.
2. MR ALLAUN MAY BE REFERRING TO THE ROUTINE PRACTICE OF RELEASING
PRISONERS FROM THEIR CELLS IN THE MORNING AND RETURNING THRI TO
THEIR CELLS IN THE EVENING.
3. OR HE MAY BE REFERRING TO SEPARATE CONFINEMENT WHICH IS A
PUNISHMENT WHICH MAY BE AWARDED TO PRISONERS WHO ARE FOUND GUILTY
OF OFFENCES AGAINST PRISON DISCIPLINE. WHERE SUCH IS AWARDED IT
MAY BE SEPARATE CONFINEMENT ON A PUNISHMENT DIET FOR A PERIOD NOT
EXCEEDING SEVEN DAYS AND/OR SEPARATE CONFINEMENT FOR ANY PERIOD
NOT EXCEEDING TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS, HOWEVER, A DAILY EXERCISE PER100 OF
HALF-HOUR IS MANDATORY AND USUALLY THE TOTAL PERIODS AMOUNT TO ONE
OR TWO HOURS DAILY.
4. NO PRISONER DETAINED AS A RESULT OF THE 1967 DISTURBANCES IS AT
PRESENT UNDERGOING SEPARATE CONFINEMENT.
5. HOWEVER, HE MAY BE REFERRING TO THE INCIDENT REFERRED TO IN MY
TELEGRAM 827 OF 29 JUNE 1968, FROM ABOUT NOVEMBER 1967 TO JUNE
1968 A NUMBER OF CONFRONTATION PRISONERS WERE CONFINED TO THE IR
CELLS, EXCEPT DURING EXERCISE PERIODS, BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO WORK.
EXERCISE
THEIR CONFINEMENT WAS VIRTUALLY VOLUNTARY, IN THE SENSE THAT THEY
COULD HAVE ELECTED TO WORK AND COME OUT OF THEIR CELLS AT ANY TIME,
CURING THIS PERIOD THEY RECEIVED READING MATTER, VISITS AND ALL OTHER
PRIVILEGES POSSIBLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. ALL THESE PRISONERS
HAVE BEEN WORKING NORMALLY SINCE JUNE 1968.
6. THE INFORMATION IN PARAGRAPH 5 SHOULD, I THINK, BE USED WITH
DISCRETION.
SIR D. TRENCH
FILE S
H.K. DEFT.
F.E.D.
MR. MORETON
ARNAR
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RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No.31
FER - 6 JAN 1969
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