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Some people have asked why we didn't go on hunger strike, the way foreigners do when jail conditions are harsh. The jailers didn't care if you refused to eat. If you refused to eat for a few days they would pay no attention; then they would truss you up on a special kind of stool, prop open your mouth with a stick and pour down a heated mixture of rice and water. If the rice didn't go down they would push it down with chopsticks. In the end your mouth would be bloody and the rice would be gone.
Even if a prisoner died of hunger it didn't matter. Plenty of prisoners died and nobody looked into the causes. Living worse than beasts, all the prisoners wanted to find a way to die sooner. Some cut their wrists with nails taken from their shoes, some swallowed their drinking mugs, some banged their heads against steel posts.'
I would also be obliged if you would confirm whether it is your policy to seek acsurance from the Governor of Hong Kong that under the terms of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967, any offenders returned to the colony before June 30 1997 will be released or removed from Hong Kong 45 days before 1st July 1997 so that they are not surrendered to PRC on 1st July 1997.
In making this request for confirmation I refer to the Magistrates ruling in the case of Mr. Lorrain Osman and whilst not seeking any comment on an individual case the ruling clearly raises a matter of Government policy.
Yours sincerely,
huihilean
THE EARL OF WINCHILSEA and NOTTINGHAM, LIBERAL PEERS OFFICE HOUSE OF LORDS, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, SW1A OPW Telephone: 01 219 6225 Assistant: KEVIN CAHILL: Telephones: 01 833 0181: 01 833 3086 (ANS) FAX 01 837 9024
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