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1978; the petition by Yaumatei boatpeople in 1979; the Sai

Lau Kok incident in 1979; and the On Lok Chuen incident in

1979 all belonged to this category.

3. Labour issues--- Workers in Hong Kong have been known to

foreign industrialists as being hard working and obedient,

and they also praised by the local Government for these

'virtues'. Hong Kong is also 'famous' for its lack of

protection for workers' rights. Any industrial action of

Advocacy for workers' rights will threaten away foreign

investments and will not be tolerated by the Government.

The CTV case belonged to this category.

Not only were the actions taken in the above events by

the Government barbarous, but a repressive law-- the Public Order

Ordinance was enacted to legitimize its suppression of human rights

in Hong Kong •

The United Kingdom ratified the International Covenant

on Civil and Political Rights on 20 May 1976, and submitted the part

of its report covering the Dependent Territories, including Hong Kong, on. 10 November 1978. We feel that the report concerning Hong Kong did

not represent the real situation about civil and political rights in

Hong Kong and this compels us to write up the present report in order

to bring the problems concerning justice and human rights in Hong Kong

to the attention of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations.

This report will be devided into three parts. Part 1 deals

with the major events in the past few years which highlighted the

suppression of human rights by the Government. There will be a brief

description of each event followed by analysis and we shall indicate

how specific provisions in the International Co-venant on Civil and

Political Rights were violated by the Government during these events.

Part 2 will be an analysis of the Public Order Ordinance to show how

the Law itself contradicts the Co-venant. In part 3, we try to present

the administrative structure of Hong Kong and the present economic and

political situation here, so as to figure out why the events occurred

under these circumstances. Since the reports on different events were

written by different persons, so they might not follow a defined form;

we hope that this will not affect the understanding of the contents.

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