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Mr Murray

PS

125

Mag A 123

LETTER FROM DIRECTOR, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL,

1. Mr David Simpson, Director of the itish Section of Amnesty International, has written to the Secretary of State urging that everything possible should be done to prevent the execution of Sylvester Gaston who was sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly lady in the British Virgin Islands. Mr Simpson also wrote to the Secretary of State in connection with the executions in Bermuda last month: copies of that correspondence

are attached.

2. I attach a draft reply for signature by the Secretary of

State.

27 January 1978

CC:

PS/Lord Goronwy-Roberts

PS/ Rowlands

PS/PUS

lar Cortazzi

Sir A Duff

WIAD

Legal Advisers

News Dept

revised sub.

See (143

(47) reply

J A B Stewart Hong Kong & General Department

нка 3801

RECENT

PEVNO. 51

30 JAN 1978

DESK OFFICER

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