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11 March 1992

CONFIDENTIAL

HKD 015/1

2 MAR 1992

S

J S Wall Esq Private Secretary 10 Downing Street

LONDON

SW1A 2AA

WEDADZ

LETTER FROM MR STEPHEN NG

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Thank you for your letter of 5 March concerning the request from Mr/Stephen Ng that Mr Lau Shan-Ching should call on the Prime Minister.

Mr Lau is a Hong Kong resident who was released on

26 December last year after serving 10 years in China for

He featured on the Prime Minister's

political offences.

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list of detainees handed to the Chinese during the visit

to Peking in September. Unlike Mr Lou Haixing, whom the

Chinese released shortly after the Prime Minister's

intervention, (and whom the Prime Minister met on

7 October), Mr Lau was obliged to serve out his full

10 year term, allegedly because he refused to admit his

crime.

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