TNAG-1689-FCO40-2339-Hong-Kong-legislation-regarding-the-control-of-publications--1987 — Page 14

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By a letter dated the 6th October 1980 the Manager of

my company wrote to the Television and Entertainment Licensing

Authority asking for their reasons in banning the said movie.

There is now produced and shown to me marked "NSY-3" a copy of

the said letter. By a letter dated the 6th October 1980 the

Chief Entertainment Standards Control Officier Mr. Pierre Lebrun

on behalf of the said Authority wrote to the Manager of my

company listing out the grounds upon which the Panel of Film

Censors unanimously banned the said movie. The letter stated

that the said movie was "likely to be offensive to the

Vietnamese people in general and especially those in the various

camps throughout Hong Kong (Film Censorship Standards,

Paragraph 5(iii). Also it is in the opinion of the Censors

that the film is likely to be offensive to the United Nations

High Commission for Refugees which try to do their best for the

Vietnamese refugees. The film also is not favourable to Hong

Kong in general: it seems that our camps are the worst in the

world which, we think, is not true. Finally, some very explicit

graphics on sex and violence are far from redeeming the story

line of the film. It is the Censors' opinion that the film on

the whole is unbalance and one sided everything and everybody

in the life of the refugees in Hong Kong is bad". A copy of

this letter is now produced and shown to me marked "NSY-4".

By a letter dated the 10th October 1980, my company informed

the said Authority that my company is to appeal against the

Censors' decision. A copy of the letter is now produced and

shown to me marked "NSY-5". Our grounds of appeal were

contained in our letter to Members of the Board of Appeal both

in English and in Chinese dated the 13th October 1980, Copies

of the said letter both in English and in Chinese are now

produced and shown to me marked "NSY-6" and NSY-6A"

respectively.

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