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LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
16 December, 1970.
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Female Confrontation Prisoners
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I told you in my letter of 8 December that Graham Sneath would take up this question in place of Denys Roberts at the Prison Board of Review meeting on 11 December.
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Graham Sneath, Acting Attorney General, did raise the question as promised and found the temperature of the water not as cold as he had feared. He introduced the subject by saying that perhaps some of the sentences passed in connection with 1967 events had been intended to be exemplary and that perhaps the time had come to examine them in that light, especially with reference to the women. Mrs. Ellen LI, who previously had represented the opposition to any discrimination in favour of women, did not object, indeed agreed that Graham Sneath's suggestion was a good one.
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Chris Howells and I are now obtaining from the Prisons Department a full account of the five women's offences and sentences in order to help the Attorney General prepare his case. After that we propose to look at the male prisoners too just in case we can see any anomalies.
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I have heard nothing from Sir David Trench about any contacts he may have had with you in London but then, so far, I have had no private conversation with him. I should be glad to know how you would like this hand to be played. The Board of Review procedure is slow and uncertain but it may be the only possible way, depending largely upon the Governor's opinion.
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I am sending a copy of this letter to John Denson and am continuing to keep this subject on my private file.
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J.A.L. Morgan, Esq.,
Far Eastern Department,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office,
LONDON, S.W.1.
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