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how protection of human right was

right was to be

to be provided for in Hong Kong in future. The protection of human rights in Hong Kong is provided for in the Joint Declaration in the following terms :

'The provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as applied to Hong Kong shall remain in force' (Last paragraph,

XIII, Annex I).

Section

Article 39 of the second Draft Basic Law, released in February

1989,

states