Domestic Law and Treaties
Hong-Kong has no domestic legislation to determine the fate of asylum seekers. Though China is a signatory of the 1951 Geneva Convention Geneva Conventions or the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (The Refugee Convention ), Hong-Kong even after the 1997 handover is not bound to these treaties. In the past, the Hong-Kong government put into force some legislation toward refugees but only for targeted actions, such as to control flows of Vietnamese refugees in the late 1990s . This legislation was ended in 1998. Asylum seekers are sometimes detained for overstaying their visa. In June 2006, some refugees detained in the Castle Peak Detention Center went on a hunger strike to protest against their very long imprisonment.
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