According to the police, 15 people, including pregnant women, were arrested in November for alleged surrogacy in Cambodia. Photo: EPA
According to the police, 15 people, including pregnant women, were arrested in November for alleged surrogacy in Cambodia. Photo: EPA
Cambodia

Cambodia’s surrogate mothers go free after agreeing to raise Chinese children but some see it as a mixed blessing

  • Cambodia banned commercial surrogacy in 2016, and police in June raided two flats where Sophea and 31 other surrogate mothers were being cared for in Phnom Penh
  • They were charged the following month with violating human-trafficking laws, but authorities released them on bail last week, under the condition they raise the children themselves

According to the police, 15 people, including pregnant women, were arrested in November for alleged surrogacy in Cambodia. Photo: EPA
According to the police, 15 people, including pregnant women, were arrested in November for alleged surrogacy in Cambodia. Photo: EPA
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