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Dear Janos,
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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
5 January, 1970.
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Thank you very much for your letter of 5 December enclosing a copy of the paper dated 21 November on Sino- British relations in the context of Hong Kong and a copy of the note of your discussion with the Governor on 25 November. I have read them with great interest.
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In paragraph 3 of your letter you ask for some account of the recent activities of the Prisons Board of Review. The last report which you had in mind was, I think, our tele- gram No. 562 of 14 July in which we said that the Attorney General was going away on leave and duty for eight weeks and the Board would not meet again until approximately the end of September.
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The Board has in fact met since then only on 25 September and 4 December. The Board are, of course, working within the terms of the old Colonial Office Circular No. 577/60 (C.0. ref: SSA 197/04) of 26 May 1960 which guides them in their deliberations, and it would be a matter of very consider- able difficulty to suggest they should apply any different criteria to confrontation prisoners.
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The Board works under Prison Rule 69A, a copy of which ou have but for the sake of convenience I attach another copy.
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At the meeting on 25 September the Board considered only routine cases. It considered none of the special review cases which arose from the Governor's initiative reported in his telegram No. 212 of 10 March. The majority of the cases reviewed on 25 September involved murder, manslaughter, robbery and dangerous drugs but there were 11 cases of young confronta- tion prisoners whose sentences came up for a routine review in accordance with Rule 69A(2)(iv), The Board recommended no change in the sentences of these 11 prisoners which had in any case already been reviewed as part of the special review of confrontation prisoners earlier in the year. The Governor accepted this advice.
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J. Murray, Esq., CMG,
Far Eastern Department,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, LONDON, S.W.1.
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