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to have been incited is impossible to be committed.

Doing or attempting to do any act with a seditious intention is an offence under the Crimes Ordinance.

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Any person who by threats or force, obstructs or prevents, endeavours to oostruct or prevent, any clergyman or other minister in or from celebrating divine service or officiating in any church etc or performing his duty in the lawful burial of the dead commits an offence under the Offences Against the Person Ordinance. Any person who strikes or offers any violence to any clergyman or minister who is engaged in or about to engage in any rites or duties aforesaid also commits an offence under the same Ordinance.

A person commits the offence of genocide if he does any of the

following acts with intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group:

(a) killing members of the group;

(b)

(c)

(a)

(e)

causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The Public Order Ordinance prohibits the display of any flag, banner, or other emblem at any public meeting if such display is likely to cause or lead to a breach of the peace. The same Ordinance also prohibits a person from using or distributing or displaying any writing containing threatening, abusive or insulting words with intent to provoke a breach of the peace.

As a precautionary measure a magistrate has the power to bind over a person to keep the peace under the Magistrates Ordinance

irrespective of whether that person has been charged or convicted if it is shown that a future breach is likely. Non compliance with the order may result in 6 months imprisonment.

154. How would the media be prevented from being used as an organ of propaganda? (SR 162 Paragraph 86)

Hong Kong has a flourishing free press which cannot be used by the governing authorities for propaganda purposes. Two English language and thirty-eight Chinese language newspapers are published each day, and Hong Kong has one of the highest newspaper readerships in Asia with over three hundred copies of newspapers being

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