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To:-
Mr. Frank Allaun, MP
House of Commons,
LONDON, S.W.1.
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From
Mr. Goronwy Roberts
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
I replied on the 17th February to a
Question which you asked about the practice
of "locking-in" in Hong Kong prisons. In the
course of a Supplementary Question you
enquired whether it was the case that some
prisoners had been confined in this manner
for as long as eight months. I undertook to
look into this point.
I should make it clear that there is
no practice of "locking-in" in the Hong Kong
prisons; nor does the Colony's prisons
ony'
legislation provide for it. Moreover, I have
BY
in that legislation
MISTER OF STATES able to discover any basis for your
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reference to a maximum period of three months Confinements
in this or any related context.
As I said in my reply to your Question,
I think you must be referring to occasions
when certain prisoners have refused to work
and have of necessity been confined to their
cells, except during exercise periods. Such
occasions occurred during the eight month
period November 1967-June, 1968, and in such
circumstances there was no alternative but to
confine the prisoners in question to their
cells. It was open to the prisoners themselves
at any time during that period, to bring their
confinement to an end by agreeing to work and
this they eventually decided/ to do.
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