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Scores of suspected sex workers arrested in same building where Hong Kong police rounded up almost 100 just months ago
Among those picked up at King Hing Building in Mong Kok were women from Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Venezuela, Belarus and mainland China
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Hong Kong police arrested scores of suspected sex workers after launching new anti-vice raids in a residential building where nearly 100 prostitutes including 17 Russians and seven Thai transgender women were rounded up in a crackdown earlier this year.
Among the 80 arrests on Thursday and Friday at the 15-storey King Hing Building in Mong Kok were 12 Thai transgender women, nine Russian women, three each from Kazakhstan and Ukraine, two from Venezuela and one from Belarus, police said. The others were 10 Thai women and 40 female visitors from mainland China.
Police arrested them on suspicion of breaching their conditions of stay.
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Two local men were also arrested.
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Acting Chief Inspector Timothy Cheung Chun-long said police noticed organised vice activities had made a return in April following the January crackdown in which 99 were arrested.
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