Article 15
149. More information requested on 'ex post facto' legislation. (SR 162 Paragraph 38)
Mr Watts' answer at SR 164 paragraph 62.
Article 18
150. Certain detailed questions about religious freedoms (SR 162 Paragraph 59)
The position is set out in paragraph 103 of the initial report.
Article 19
151.
What remedy is available to a person who feels his right to freedom of opinion has been infringed. (SR 162 Paragraph 15)
The position is set out in paragraph 104 of the initial report. Article 20
152. What is the meaning of "sedition" and "blasphemy"? (SR 162 Paragraph 16 and SR 161 Paragraph 23)
Sedition is a statutory offence under the Crimes Ordinance which is committed when any person:
(a)
(b)
does or attempts to do, or makes any preparation to do or conspires with any person to do, any act with a seditious intention; or
utters any seditious words; or
(c) prints, publishes, sells, offers for sale,
distributes, displays or reproduces any seditious publication unless he has no
reason to believe that it is seditious, or
(d) possesses without lawful excuse any seditious
publication.
Seditious intention is statutorily defined as
an intention:
(a) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite
disaffection against the person of Her Majesty: or Her Heirs or Successors or against the Government of Hong Kong, or of any other part of Her Majesty's dominions or of any territory under Her Majesty's protection as by law established; or
(b) to excite Her Majesty's subjects or inhabitants
of Hong Kong to attempt to procure the alteration,
:
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