A Death in Hong Kong : The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal
| Autor: | Nigel Collett |
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| Popis: | In January 1980 a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His death came mere hours before he was to be arrested for committing homosexual acts still, at that point, illegal in Hong Kong. But this was more than the desperate act of a young man, ashamed and afraid; both his death and the subsequent investigation were a smokescreen for a scandal that went to the heart of the establishment. |
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