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peaceful assembly contained in Article 18 of the Bi11
Rights and Article 21 of the ICCPR."
also
The summonses coincide with a refusal by the Government to
allow a church group to hold a meeting in Queen Elizabeth Stadium
commemorating the June 4 massacre.
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Such action is
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consistent with the Hong Kong Government's promise to the PRC--
contained in an October 1989 letter from the Political Advisor
to the Hong Kong branch of the New China News Agency (the defacto
PRC embassy in Hong Kong) --that the Government has no intention
of allowing Hong Kong to be used as
base for subversive
activities against the PRC.
In that letter, the Government pointed to arrests of certain
protesters outside of the NCNA and its refusal to allow for "a
permanent site for a replica statute of democracy" as evidence
of its "prudent regard" for the "interests and concerns of the
Chinese Government." Mr. Lee stated, "The charges laid against
the four democracy leaders repeat this
this extremely disturbing
decision of the Hong Kong Government to place the concerns of the
Chinese Government supreme over
supreme over human rights and freedom of
expression in Hong Kong."
Determined to preserve freedom of expression in Hong Kong,
at least some of the four leaders of the United Democrats, is
convicted, will refuse to pay fines a
violates the ICCPR and the Bill of Rights.
under a statute that
Rather, they call on
the Government to rescind all such statutes immediately and to
be far more vigilant in its protection of human rights between
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