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CONFIDENTIAL

Note No. 9

VISIT OF PARLIAMENTARY UNDER-SECRETARY, MR. ROYLE,

TO HONG KONG

OCTOBER 1970

CONFRONTATION PRISONERS

Number of Prisoners

There are now eighty prisoners still serving

sentences in Hong Kong for offences committed during the

disturbances in 1967. By 1974 all but seven (including

two with life sentences) will have been released,

Sick Prisoners

2.9 In May this year we learned from other sources that

local Horg Kong Communists were discussing with Feking

the question of sick prisoners. In the same month two

delegations visited the Colonial Secretariat on behalf

of sick prisoners. We are informed by the Colonial

Secretariat that six confrontation prisoners (including

one of those mentioned by the delegations) are now

suffering from severe illnesses. In brief, their names,

sentences and illnesses are:-

Chau Chu-Ming (6 years : cancer),

Yeung Wai (8 years : severe neurological pain),

Chan Sai-Kit (8 years : blindness in both eyes

and severe headaches),

CONFIDENTIAL

/Fu Yuk-Fat