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2nd November 1970

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"La/Co.

Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will direct the Hong Kong Government, as an act of clemency, to free those long-term prisoners suffering from incurable illness.

No. 50W

MR. ANTHONY ROYLE

No, Sir. The Hong Kong Prison Rules

require the Medical Officer to make recommen-

dations whenever he considers that the life of

any prisoner will be endangered by his

continuance in prison, or that any sick prisoner

will not survive his sentence, or is totally or

permanently unfit for prison sentence. The

Governor has invariably released a prisoner on

receipt of such a recommendation.