Data on asylum seekers detained in Hong Kong should be disclosed more proactively, legal expert says

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“In a place like Hong Kong, as well resourced as it is ... to say we are not maintaining such basic data is a real concern,” she said.

Surabhi Chopra, an associate professor at Chinese University who specialises in forced migration and rights of the poor, said her research led her to conclude that it was even harder to find public information on immigration detainees than on prisoners.

“In a place like Hong Kong, as well resourced as it is [and] as highly qualified as people within our detention systems are, and our civil service, to say we are not maintaining such basic data is a real concern,” she said. In Hong Kong, most immigration detainees are either sent to the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre, Ma Tau Kok Detention Centre, which is run by the Immigration Department, or the Tai Tam Gap Correctional Institution, a facility which is operated by the CSD after it was converted from a jail last May.

“What is the process once someone is detained around their intake? When is detention reviewed? If you’re in there for six months? Is it regularly reviewed? Is it not?” she asked.

 

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