18 March 1992
CONFIDENTIAL
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Call by Mr Stephen Ng and Mr Lau Shan-Ching
You asked for briefing for a call on you by
Mr Stephen Ng and Mr Lau Shan-Ching.
You will wish to be aware that As part of his
current lecture tour, Mr Lau spoke on 9 March at a
meeting in the School of Oriental and African Studies.
He described a new policy of solitary confinement for
political prisoners, established in 1985. Special
accommodation within prisons had been constructed for
them.
His fellow speaker on this occasion (a Mr Harry Wu, also a former political prisoner) described the practice
of "forced job placement", where former inmates of prison
camps are forced to remain in custody to continue work, theoretically as ordinary workers, although they are not allowed to leave and their pay is less than half of that
of a normal worker. Although it is true (as I said in my
letter to you of 11 March) that, despite the
Prime Minister's intervention, Mr Lau was obliged to serve every day of his 10 year sentence, he made a point
on 9 March of attributing his release to international
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