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Mr Burrows

Legal Advisers

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HONG KONG : CLOSED CAMPS FOR VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

1.

We spoke. I enclose a copy of the Immigration (Vietnamese Refugees Centres) (Closed Centre) Rules 1982, which were gazetted in the Legal Supplement to the Hong Kong Government Gazette on 7 July.

2.

to you:

The following sections may be of particular interest

(a)

(b)

Sections 7 8 Provision for visits by justices of the peace and centre visitors;

Section 10

Provision for examination and search of all persons and vehicles entering or leaving a centre;

(c)

Sections 12 - 30

General treatment of detainees,

in particular:

(i) section 13

(ii) section 26

searching;

letters;

(iii) section 29 - mechanical restraints;

detainees, in particular:

(d)

Sections 31 37

Discipline and control of

(i)

section 34

description of offences;

(ii)

section 35

punishments;

3.

(iii) section 37 use of arms.

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I would be grateful for your comments as to whether the use of these rules breaches the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

28 September 1982

R J F Hoare

Hong Kong and General Department WH 312

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