TNAG-0719-FCO40-917-Capital-punishment-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1978 — Page 75

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer cn..1G...January 1978

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by

Noor Houday

9 Jaxuary 1918

Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many death sentences imposed by the courts in Hong Kong have been commuted; (a) on the authority of the Governor, and (b) on the advice of Her Majesty's Government during the period 1970 to 1977.

(a)

78

(b)

1

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