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Notices of Questions and Motions: 4th March 1982

301 DEMOCRATIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONG KONG

Mr Robert Parry

Mr Martin Flannery Mr Tony Benn Mr Harry Cowans Mr Dennis Canavan

Mr Bob McTaggart

Mr Michael McGuire Mr Leslie Spriggs Mr Christopher Price Mr Barry Jones

Mr S. Clinton-Davis

Mr David Stoddart Mr George Morton Mr Norman Atkinson Mr Barry Sheerman Lak

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-Mr Frank Haynes

Mr Laurie Pavitt La/co

Mr Dale Campbell-Savours Mr Charles Morris

That this House recognises the merit of the social and community work of Ms Christine Vertucci among the poor, the homeless, and low income groups in Hong Kong and her campaign for health and safety at work; deplores the decision of the Hong Kong Government to expel her from the Colony without giving a cause for its actions; condemns this arbitrary action and violation of human rights; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to reverse that decision in order to prevent democratic, human and civil rights and freedom of speech and justice in the Colony becoming a mockery and a charade.

As an Amendment to Mr Robert Parry's proposed Motion (Democratic and Human Rights in Hong Kong):

Mr John Spence

Mr Cyril D. Townsend Con.

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Line 1, leave out from 'House' to end and add 'deplores the consistent denigration by certain honourable Members of the well-administered Crown Colony of Hong Kong ; and congratulates the Government of Hong Kong for achieving standards of human rights, freedom and a degree of democracy and free speech unequalled by its neighbours.".

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