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lause great care over these amendments, for if Section 10(2)(C) were enacted together with Section 103) (D) as proposed by the Honourable Yeung Po-kwan, we would be passing a law which would contravene Article 19.

Mirko

We would be

creating a very undesirable precedent during this very sensitive period in the history of Hong Kong. Further,

we must not be blind to the possible consequences of such

a law in that, it may be the thin end of the wedge, in that the same approach may be extended to other forms of the mass media in future.

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Sir, if one freedom is violated today, then no

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freedom is safe tomorrow.

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