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YPHER CAT/A

PRIORITY

HỒNG KONG

TO F.2.0.

TELEGRAM NUMBER 766

5 NOVEMBER 1970

CONFIDENTIAL 050215Z

77

ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE, LONDON TELEGRAM

NUMBER 766 AND REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO CHARGE D'AFFAIRES

PEKING.

FOR NEWS DEPARTMENT.

NO PULICITY WILL BE GIVEN TO THE RELEASE ON 6 NOVEMBER OF THE

TO PRISONERS REFERRED TO IN MY TELEGRAM 760 UNLESS PRESS QUESTIONS

ARE ASKED, IN ANSWER TO QUESTIONS WE WILL ISSUE THE FOLLOWING

STATEMENT:-

''TWO PRISONERS WHO HAVE BEEN GRANTED A REMISSION OF SENTENCE FOR

HEALTH REASONS BY THE GOVERNOR WERE RELEASED FROM STANLEY PRISON

TODAY.

THESE CASES WERE BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE GOVERNOR

FOLLOWING MEDICAL REPORTS MADE BY THE PRISON MEDICAL OFFICER.

THE GOVERNOR EXERCISED HIS PREROGATIVE TO REMIT SENTENCES

UNDER ARTICLE 15 CF THE LETTERS PATENT AND ORDERED THE RELEASE

OF THE PRISONERS TODAY''.

2. IN ANSWER TO SUBSEQUENT QUESTIONS WE WILL DRAW ON THE FOLLOWING

INFORMATION ABOUT THESE TWO PRISONERS:-

AGE 43

OFFENCE: A. RIOT

B. CONSORTING WITH PERSONS CARRYING CFFENSIVE WEAPONS

C. RESISTING A POLICE OFFICER

SENTENCE: 8 YEARS

DATE OF SENTENCE: 27:9:67

NORMAL EARLIEST DATE OF RELEASE: 25:1:73

AGE 39

OFFENCE! POSSESSION CF OFFENSIVE WEAPON

SENTENCE: 9 YEARS

DATE OF SENTENCE: 23:10:67

NORMAL EARLIEST DATE OF RELEASE: 22:13:73

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