Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre

Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (CIC, Chinese: 青山灣入境事務中心 is an immigration detention centre located in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. 7,942 persons were held at CIC in 2015 who were slated for expulsion from Hong Kong.[1]

Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre
Traditional Chinese青山灣入境事務中心
Simplified Chinese青山湾入境事务中心
Immigration Centre and Immigration Service Institute of Training and Development in Castle Peak Bay, Tuen Mun

Notable events

In December 2019, an Indonesian migrant worker, author, and reporter Yuli Riswati, reported that she was strip-searched by a male doctor at CIC.[2] She noted that "Many friends who are still detained there at CIC are suffering – the conditions are inhumane and unjust."[3]

From 29 June 2020, a group of around 25 detainees reportedly went on hunger strike against what they saw as their indefinite detention, though authorities said that, while they were refusing official meals, tests including for glucose levels showed that they were in fact taking nutrition of some kind.[4]

References
  1. "Enforcement and Removal Assessment Branch". Immigration Department of Hong Kong. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  2. "Male doctor strip searched me: expelled Indonesian". RTHK Hong Kong. 7 December 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  3. Cheng, Kris (2 December 2019). "Indonesian woman who covered Hong Kong protests as a citizen journalist deported over visa issue". Hong Kong Free Press. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  4. Doubt cast on hunger strike claim by detainees, RTHK, 22 July 2020


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