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I should perhaps add, for your own, information of course, that the Minister, with whom I have discussed the case on several occasions recently, regards it as important that we press Amnesty quite hard to produce a concrete basis for their allegations something much more than, for example, a highly suspect Hong Kong Standard report. He does not think they can do so, and considers that if we let them get away with unsubstantiated allegations this time, they will be encouraged to go on making them in all kinds of other contexts too. Of course we have yet to see what Mr Sanguinetti has to contribute.
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I am sorry that this letter has rather voluminous enclosures, but I thought that you might like to have the additional background. So might those to whom I am copying it, in so far as they do not have it already.
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RB Crowson
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AE Donald Esq, Political Adviser, Hong Kong BL Barder Esq, Canberra
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