Reference
A:
Parliamentary Question (Mr David Alton) of
February 1991.
A
Background
1. Mr David Alton put down a related question in February.
2.
Paragraph 3 (5) of the 1984 Joint Declaration provides
that:
"Rights and freedoms, including those of
religious belief will be ensured by law in the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region".
3. Article 32 of the Basic Law provides that:
4.
"Hong Kong residents shall have freedom of conscience.
Hong Kong residents shall have freedom of religious
belief and freedom to preach and to conduct and
participate in religious activities in public".
Both the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law also
provide for the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights to continue to apply to Hong Kong after
1997. Article 18 of the ICCPR provides that:
"1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of
thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or
belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually
or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship,
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