Zhang Shuxia was given a suspended death sentence for abducting newborn babies and selling them to traffickers in Shaanxi province in January. Photo: Reuters

Hong Kong needs a dedicated anti-trafficking law

Grenville Cross says we must act, given our role as a transit and destination city for forced labour

Grenville Cross

Published: 5:30pm, 10 Mar, 2014

Updated: 2:53pm, 20 Jul, 2018

Zhang Shuxia was given a suspended death sentence for abducting newborn babies and selling them to traffickers in Shaanxi province in January. Photo: Reuters

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Grenville Cross

Grenville Cross SC is a criminal justice analyst, a barrister (Queen’s counsel and senior counsel), and vice-chairman of the senate of the International Association of Prosecutors. He is sentencing editor of Hong Kong Cases and Archbold Hong Kong, and co-author of Sentencing in Hong Kong. He was the director of public prosecutions from 1997 to 2009.