TNAG-0495-FCO40-560-Deportation-of-foreign-nationals-from-Hong-Kong-1974 — Page 159

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TO PRIORITY HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO.29 OF 19 JANUARY 1974 INFO

PRIORITY TO SAIGON.

YOUR TELEGRAMS NOS 23 AND 1325.

LEUNG PAK-KIN.

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1. AMNESTY HAVE NOW SENT ON TO US SANGUINETTI'S REPORT ON THIS CASE. THIS DEALS EXTENSIVELY WITH HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE COLONIAL SECRETARY ON 24 DECEMBER. IT IS NOT SPECIFIC ON WHETHER LEUNG IS

A DESERTER BUT ARGUES THAT IT WOULD BE INHUMANE TO REMOVE LEUNG TO SAIGON WHERE AN UNKNOWN FATE AWAITS HIM, WHEN HE HAS A VALID VISA

FOR TAIWAN,

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2. IN THE UK A DEPORTEE WOULD NORMALLY BE SENT TO THE COUNTRY OF WHICH HE IS A NATIONAL, BUT IF HE CAN SHOW AN ADJUDICATOR THAT HE IS ACCEPTABLE TO ANY OTHER COUNTRY HE WILL NORMALLY BE ALLOWED TO GO

THERE. THERE HAVE BEEN TWO RECENT CASES HERE. ONE IS THAT OF THE CHILEAN STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT BEING GRANTED ASYLUM BUT WILL BE ALLOWED

TO GO TO THE COUNTRY OF THEIR CHOICE. IN ANOTHER CASE A PAKISTANI HAS WON AN APPEAL TO BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO THE IRISH REPUBLIC RATHER THAN TO PAKISTAN, DESPITE THE RISK THAT SHE MIGHT SLIP BACK

INTO THE U.K. FROM IRELAND.

3. WE ACCEPT THAT ON THE BASIS OF SAIGON TELEGRAM NO 489 IT IS UNLIKELY THAT LEUNG WOULD FACE THE DEATH SENTENCE. BUT WE CANNOT EXCLUDE THE RISK THAT IF HE WERE RETURNED THERE AND BECAME SUBJECT TO MILITARY DISCIPLINE, HE WOULD SUFFER SOME PENALTY, POSSIBLY

SEVERE.

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SANGUINETTI'S REPORT SAYS THAT LEUNG ALREADY HAS A TWO MONTHS VISITORS VISA FOR TAIWAN VALID UNTIL MAY 1974 WHICH COULD BE RENEWED -

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