Detainee returns to HK

January 28, 2025
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A Hong Kong resident (second left) who was rescued after being forced to work illegally in Myanmar lands back in Hong Kong from Thailand.

The Security Bureau today said that a Hong Kong resident who was recently rescued after being detained in Myanmar, where he was forced to work illegally, returned to Hong Kong from Thailand with the bureau’s dedicated task force last night.

 

The task force travelled to Bangkok on confirmation of the Hong Kong resident concerned having arrived there from Myanmar. Its co-ordination and liaison with various other parties resulted in the man being reunited with his family in Hong Kong before the Lunar New Year.

 

The task force expressed gratitude to the Thai authorities for their humane handling of the case, saying it had allowed him to return to Hong Kong as soon as possible.

 

The bureau also thanked the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; the Chinese Embassy in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; the Chinese Embassy in the Kingdom of Thailand; the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Chiang Mai; the Consulate-General of Myanmar in Hong Kong; the Royal Thai Consulate-General, Hong Kong; and the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in Bangkok.

 

The task force is following up on the cases of the remaining 10 cases of 10 individuals who have not yet returned to Hong Kong. It is exchanging intelligence with directors of special investigations and human trafficking in Thailand’s Ministry of Justice.

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