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Sir D. Watan

DEATH SENTENCE IN HONG KONG

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1 Lord Gardiner, Chairman of the Council of

Justice, the British Section of the International

Commission of Jurists, wrote to the Secretary of

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State on 10 May about the death sentence on TSOI

Kwok-cheong in Hong Kong.

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I attach a draft reply from the Secretary

of State to Lord Gardiner.

The defortimant's

Legal Advisw agrees.