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Action Taken
DATE:
9 January 1987
Mr
Layden ayd
ati
Dr Wilson
Cc:
Sumable idée fel Sent for dempelow.
HONG KONG:
Mr Masefield. FED
Mr Meyer, News Dept
PUSD
PUBLIC MEETING IN SUPPORT OF THE DEMOCRACY IN
CHINA CAMPAIGN
2
1.
The
Hong Kong Telno 81 reports an application by
leftwing sympathisers of the present democracy in China
movement to hold a public meeting
in Hong Kong.
meeting will be held at 3 pm on 11 January,
2.
Hong Kong consider that there are no valid grounds
to disallow the meeting. (Indeed under the Hong Kong
Public Order Ordinance, it would appear that once the 4
day period within which the Police may object has expired,
only the Governor in Council can prohibit such a meeting:
avoided if at all possible). I
agree. It would be very hard indeed to prohibit a public
meeting in Hong Kong in support of meetings which are
already taking place
China. Hong Kong also consider
that the organisers are unlikely to attract a large crowd:
this judgment also looks reasonable to
this
3.
should plainly
it
be
in
me.
would however seem sensible to alert NCNA as a
courtesy to the fact that the meeting is taking place:
and to remind them that, under Hong Kong's public order
legislation, we have no practicable means of preventing
it.
I therefore recommend that we
send a telegram to
Hong Kong on the lines of the attached draft.
FED concur.
9 January 1987
E Leeks
Hong Kong Department
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