Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre. Photo: Handout
Opinion
Opinion
Surabhi Chopra
Hong Kong should rethink rules that threaten to make immigration detention feel like jail
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