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Surabhi Chopra
Surabhi Chopra
Surabhi Chopra is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, specialising in migrants’ rights.

Proposed changes include allowing intimate body searches, raising maximum solitary confinement to 28 days and a new detention centre managed by the prisons authority. This is a disturbing move towards making an already opaque, non-judicial system punitive, especially when many have been victims of trafficking or persecution.

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Serious gaps in anti-trafficking policy let crime happen in plain sight, and treating victims as criminals leaves them reluctant to come forward. The good news is that focused, achievable reform can improve the situation and is possible within existing legal frameworks.

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