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HONG KONG: ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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You will have seen the attached telegram from Hong Kong. I should be grateful for your views of the course they propose and also of the suggestions made by ExCo (paras 2 and 3). We have been asked to reply to Hong Kong by the morning of 25 February, but will need to get Ministerial approval before we do.

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I should also be grateful for any thoughts on my draft telegram (attached). I am not sure about the practicalities of ring fencing some of the Emergency Regulations and not others. And I am afraid it would not be a political possibility to abolish the crime of treason except in time of

war.

I also attach a copy of the ExCo Memorandum. It is our only one so please could I have it back?

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CODE 18-77

K. Saunders

KAM Saunders

Hong Kong Department

WH 311

270 3544

24 February 1992

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I have made a slight amendment to paren I think para 3 should be omitted. The purpose of the bill is to remove the Gevernor's power to make regulations providing for the death penalty not 1) (трелларо (as perhaps implied in Hong Kong Telus 507 para to make life mumpresonment the only mammium sentence he imposed to breaches of the Energency Regulations. The governor can still make regulations providing for Referenner

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Yes, but it was post-1997 I was Homiking about.

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