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CYPHER/CAT A
PRIORITY HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NO 348
SECRET
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
RESTIVEN IN
2 MAY 1969
བར་ ི
- 5.A 1969
SECRET
ADDRESSED FCO AS MYTEL, 348 OF 2ND MAY RFI PEKING.
.MY TELEGRAM NO. 347 :
AND OTHER CONFRONTATION PRISONERS.
FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF PROPOSED ANNOUNCEMENT.
QUOTE ELEVEN PERSONS WHO ARE SERVING SENTENCES IN PRISON OF BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE YEARS FOR CRIMES COMMITTED DURING THE 1967 DISTURBANCES HAVE TODAY EACH HAD THEIR SENTENCES REDUCED TO A MAXIMIMUM OF THREE YEARS. SUBJECT TO THEIR GOOD CONDUCT AND AND MAXIMUM REMISSION THEY SHOULD ALL BE RELEASED FROM PRISON
BETWEEN JULY AND DECEMBER THIS YEAR.
2. WARRANTS REDUCING THEIR SENTENCES WERE SIGNED TODAY BY THE
GOVERNOR AFTER HE HAD CONSIDERED AND ACCEPTED THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRISON BOARD OF REVIEW IN RESPECT OF THESE PRISONERS.
3. IT IS AT THE DIRECTION OF THE GOVERNOR THAT THE BOARD OF REVIEW
$ CURRENTLY EXAMINING THE BACKGROUND OF ALL SUCH PRISONERS WHO HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO SERVE TERMS OF NOT LESS THAN FOUR YEARS
IMPRISONMENT.
4. THE BOARD OF REVIEW WAS SET UP TEN YEARS AGO TO MAKE RECOMMEND- ATIONS TO THE GOVERNOR IN RESPECT OF ADULT PRISONERS SERVING LONG SENTENCES AND YOUNG PRISONERS SERVING A YEAR OR MORE IN
PRISON.
5. LAST YEAR THE BOARD OF REVIEW RECOMMENDED THAT 44 YOUNG PRISONERS SERVING SENTENCES OF ONE YEAR OR MORE SHOULD HAVE THEIR SENTENCES REDUCED AND THE GOVERNOR GRANTED THE REMISSIONS RECOMMENDED BY
THE BOARD.
6.
RECENTLY A NUMBER OF ITEMS OF EMERGENCY LEGISLATION HAVE
/BEEN...
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REGISTRY No.51
- 7 MAY 1969
NICKLIN
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