28 Apr 2025獨媒#6736
質疑改身分證性別新政策損私隱權兼構成歧視 跨男謝浩霖申司法覆核求推翻
The Court of Final Appeal ruled two years ago that the Immigration Department’s policy requiring transgender people to undergo complete gender reassignment surgery before changing the gender marker on their identity cards was unconstitutional. In early April last year, the department revised the policy. People who have not undergone complete gender reassignment surgery may apply to change the gender marker on their identity cards if they have removed their breasts, or their penis and testicles, but must make a statutory declaration undertaking to continue hormone treatment, submit blood-test reports to check hormone levels when requested by the authorities, and notify the Registration of Persons Office within 30 days of any change to their correspondence address or telephone number. Tse Henry Edward, one of the transgender people who won the case and chair of the Hong Kong Transgender Equality Association, filed an application for judicial review in the High Court last Thursday (the 24th), challenging the new policy as infringing his right to privacy and constituting sex discrimination. He also argued that Hong Kong lacks a legally recognised route for gender transition, meaning that his male identity remains uncertain, in breach of the right to privacy and private life protected by Article 14 of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights. He asked the court to rule that the new policy was unconstitutional and order its withdrawal.
終審法院前年裁定，入境處要求跨性別人士須完成完整性別重置手術，才能更改身分證性別的政策違憲。入境處去年4月初修訂政策，未完成完整性別重置手術的人士，若果已移除乳房，或移除陽具和睪丸的話，須作出法定聲明，包括承諾會繼續接受荷爾蒙治療、在當局要求下提交血液測試報告以檢查荷爾蒙水平，以及若果通訊地址和電話有任何更改，須在30日內通知人事登記處，方可申請更改身分證性別。其中一名勝訴的跨性別人士、香港跨性別平權協會主席謝浩霖上周四（24日）入稟高院提請司法覆核，質疑新政策損害他的私隱權及構成性別歧視。他亦質疑本港缺乏法律上認可性別轉換的途徑，意味他的男性身份具不確定性，違反《香港人權法案》第14條所保障的私隱權和私生活權利。謝要求法庭裁定新政策違憲及下令撤銷。
6 Oct 2024獨媒#4124
今年首9個月逾2.3萬人被拒入境 郭俊峯：有穩定治安才有繁榮經濟發展
Director of Immigration Kwok Chun-fung said in a radio interview that the Immigration Department had refused entry to 23,503 arriving travellers in the first nine months of this year, accounting for 0.07% of all travellers, similar to previous years. He said about 85% were refused because their purpose for coming to Hong Kong was considered suspicious. He said the department had a responsibility to safeguard the country’s “southern gate” and maintain Hong Kong’s security, adding that “there can only be prosperous economic development with stable security”. Kwok also said Hong Kong residents were basically not on the watchlist for refusal of entry.
Speaking on Commercial Radio’s “政好星期天” programme, Kwok said Hong Kong very much welcomed “genuine travellers”, but also had a “watchlist” and would refuse entry to people whom the department believed might affect Hong Kong’s security or pose a higher immigration risk. He said the department was currently working with airlines to pilot an “Advance Passenger Information System”, under which passenger information would be sent to the Immigration Department before a civil aviation flight took off, allowing the department to immediately indicate whether the relevant travellers would be permitted to come to Hong Kong. All airlines were currently willing to cooperate, and the system was expected to be implemented across the board by the middle of next year.
入境處處長郭俊峯接受電台訪問時稱，處方在今年首9個月共拒絕23,503抵港旅客入境，佔所有旅客0.07%，與以往相若。他指，約85%被拒入境原因是「來港目的有可疑」，而處方有責任守好國家「南大門」，維護香港治安，「有穩定治安才有繁榮經濟發展」。郭又提到，香港居民基本上不在拒絕入境的監察名單上。
郭俊峯於商台《政好星期天》節目上表示，香港非常歡迎「真正的旅客」，但亦有「監察名單」，會拒絕「我哋覺得會影響香港治安、入境風險較高」者入境。他稱，處方現正與航空公司合作試行「預先通報乘客資料系統」，即讓民航飛機起飛前先將乘客資料傳送至入境處，處方即時回覆是否容許相關旅客來港；目前各航空公司都願意配合，系統預料明年中全面推行。
3 Sept 2024明報#4012
預先通報乘客資料系統今起推行 入境處強調不影響香港居民出入境
The Immigration Department announced that the Advance Passenger Information System officially came into operation today (the 3rd). Under the Immigration (Advance Passenger Information) Regulation, air operators are required to transmit to the Immigration Department advance information on flights arriving in Hong Kong and their passengers. The department stressed that Hong Kong residents’ freedom of travel and rights to enter and leave Hong Kong are protected by the Basic Law and the Hong Kong Bill of Rights under the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance. The implementation of the system will have no impact on these rights. The system will not issue no-board instructions to permanent residents who enjoy the right of abode in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and will also help prevent undesirable persons, including potential non-refoulement claimants, from travelling to Hong Kong by air.
入境處公布，預先通報乘客資料系統今日（3日）起正式推行，規定航空營運商須根據《入境（預先通報乘客資料）規例》，向入境處傳送來港航班及其乘客的預報資料。處方強調，香港居民的旅行自由和出入境權利受到《基本法》及《香港人權法案條例》所載的《香港人權法案》保障，預報系統的推行不會有任何影響，預報系統不會向享有香港特別行政區居留權的永久性居民發出禁止登機指示，系統亦有助阻截包括潛在的免遣返聲請人等不受歡迎人士乘坐航班來港。
3 Apr 2024法庭線#3302
入境處敗訴逾年今修訂政策 容未完成完整重置手術跨性別者改身份證性別
Two transgender men were refused applications to change the sex recorded on their identity cards because they had not completed the entire gender reassignment surgery. They sought judicial review, and the Court of Final Appeal ruled in their favour in February last year, saying the Immigration Department’s policy imposed an “unacceptable and onerous burden” on transgender people.
More than a year after its final defeat in the case, the Government announced on Wednesday (the 3rd) that, in response to the Court of Final Appeal’s judgment, it had revised the policy for applications to change the sex recorded on Hong Kong identity cards. With immediate effect, in addition to people who have completed the full gender reassignment surgery, transgender people who have not completed the entire procedure may also apply to change the sex on their identity cards if they have completed surgery to alter their sexual characteristics and meet specified criteria and requirements.
A Government spokesman stressed that the revision concerns only the policy on changing the sex recorded on identity cards. The sex shown on an identity card does not represent a person’s legal sex, and the revision will not affect other Government policies.
兩名女變男跨性別人士，因未完成整個性別重置手術，向入境處申請更改身份證性別被拒，提出司法覆核，終審法院去年 2 月裁定二人終極勝訴，指入境處政策對跨性別人士施加「不可接受的嚴苛負擔」。
入境處終極敗訴事隔逾一年，政府周三（3 日）宣布，因應終審法院判決，修訂本港申請更改身份證性別的政策，由即日起，除已完成整項性別重置手術的人士外，即使未完成整項重置手術，若跨性別人士已完成手術改變性徵，並符合特定準則及要求，將可申請更改身份證上性別。
政府發言人強調，有關修訂只關乎更改身份證上性別的政策，而身份證上的性別，不代表該人在法律上的性別，有關修訂不會影響其他政府政策。
30 Mar 2024獨媒#3287
復活長假首日70萬本港居民離境 兩日錄122.5萬人次
Yesterday (March 29) was the first day of the Easter holiday, and all departure control points were packed. Immigration Department figures showed that 700,808 Hong Kong residents left the city yesterday, while total arrivals and departures exceeded 1.16 million, including 370,218 arrivals.
A total of 795,610 departure passenger trips were recorded at all control points, of which 700,808 were made by Hong Kong residents. Lo Wu recorded the highest number of departures, at more than 168,000 passenger trips, followed by Lok Ma Chau with 156,000 and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge with 106,000. There were 370,218 arrivals, including 269,000 Hong Kong residents and 66,000 mainland visitors.
昨日（3月29日）是復活節長假期首日，各離境口岸迫爆。入境處數字顯示，昨日有700,808名本港居民離境，而全日出入境人數逾116萬，入境人數則為37萬。
離境人數方面，各口岸共錄得795,610人次，其中700,808人次為本港居民。各口岸離境人數數字方面，羅湖最高有逾16.8萬人次，其次是落馬州口岸的15.6萬人次，第三則是港珠澳大橋的10.6萬。入境人數方面則為370,218人次，其中26.9萬為本港居民，內地訪客則為6.6萬。
20 Mar 2024獨媒#3214
內地跨性別平權人士在港被捕及判囚 關注組：已被入境處遣返
Mainland transgender rights activist Lai Ho (Yap Yin) was arrested last year while transiting in Hong Kong to Canada and sentenced to 15 months in prison for three immigration offences. Lai Ho was originally due to be released on 2 March, but family members were informed last month that Lai Ho would be transferred to Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre for indefinite detention. The Lai Ho (Yap Yin) Global Concern Group told inmediahk.net today that Lai Ho was released from Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre on the morning of 2 March but was immediately deported by the Immigration Department.
內地跨性別平權倡議人士賴可，去年在港轉機到加拿大期間被捕，因三項出入境罪被判監15個月。賴可原本可在3月2日獲釋，惟其家人上月被通知賴可將於當日轉到青山灣入境事務中心無限期關押。「賴可（翕然）全球關注組」今日向《獨媒》表示，賴可已在3月2日早上在小欖精神病治療中心獲釋後，但即時被入境處遣返。
15 Mar 2024獨媒#3190
23條立法｜入境事務學院結業會操 砌「二十三」字樣撐立法
The Immigration Service Institute’s passing-out parade was held today (15th), with Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung inspecting 209 graduating trainees, including 103 Immigration Officers and 106 Immigration Assistants. During the parade, the band performed military music of the new era and ethnic music, while the Immigration Department’s Guard of Honour staged a Chinese-style drill demonstration. The Guard of Honour then rearranged itself with the parade formation to form the Chinese numerals “二十三”, demonstrating the Immigration Department’s full support for legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law.
入境事務學院學員結業會操今日（15日）舉行，由保安局局長鄧炳強今日主持，檢閱209名結業學員，包括103名入境事務主任及106名入境事務助理員。會操中，樂隊演奏新時代軍樂及民族樂曲，而入境處儀仗隊亦進行了中式步操演示。儀仗隊隨後與會操隊伍變陣拼砌出中國數字「二十三」，展示入境處全力支持《基本法》23條立法。
8 Feb 2024獨媒#2964
審批簽證須評國安風險 入境處長不評論美斯是否「不受歡迎」
Immigration Director Kwok Chun-fung held a press conference to review the department’s work over the past year. He said the Immigration Department would fully support and cooperate with the Government, including advancing the legislative work on Article 23 of the Basic Law, and would actively eliminate any national security risks. When assessing visa applications, it would include a national security risk assessment and consider whether an applicant’s background, conduct and remarks constituted a national security risk, to prevent any person who was “undesirable or a threat to national security” from entering Hong Kong. Asked by the media whether Messi, who had faced widespread criticism, might be refused a visa in future for being “undesirable”, Kwok said he understood the public’s dissatisfaction but could not comment on individual cases.
入境處處長郭俊峯舉行記者會總結年度工作，他表示入境處將全力支持和配合政府，包括推展《基本法》第23條立法工作，並會積極排除任何國家安全風險，在審理簽證時加入國家安全風險評估，考慮該人背景及言行是否構成國家安全風險，防止任何「不受歡迎或危害國家安全」的人進入香港。有傳媒問及，被人備受抨擊的美斯，將來申請簽證會否因為「不受歡迎」被拒，郭俊峯表示理解市民不滿，但他不便評論個別個案。
28 Oct 2023獨媒#8558
入境處拒續批工作簽證 研六四學者失中大歷史系教席
Canadian Chinese historian Ho Hiu-ching, who taught a June Fourth course at Harvard University and wrote *Tiananmen Exiles: The Voice of China’s Democracy Movement*, had been an associate professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2019. After waiting more than a year for a decision, her application to extend her work visa was formally rejected by the Immigration Department this month, immediately costing her the post. In an interview with Independent Media, Ho said she was a “very moderate” person who only wanted to conduct research and teach, but that “such a humble request as being a scholar and a teacher ultimately still comes at such a great cost,” leaving her feeling helpless about the decision. She said it was difficult to state definitively why her visa had been rejected, but believed it was related to her research and teaching. Describing it as a very typical case of “killing the chicken to scare the monkeys,” she said it would have a chilling effect on colleagues and students working on China-related issues and affect academic freedom. Ho said she had researched the subject of “exile,” only to become one of those in exile herself.
曾於哈佛大學開設六四課程、著有《天安門流亡者：中國民主抗爭的呼聲》一書，自2019年起於香港中文大學任副教授的加拿大籍華裔歷史學者何曉清，等待審批逾一年後，工作簽證延期申請於本月正式被入境處拒絕，即時失去教席。何曉清接受《獨媒》訪問，表示自己是「好溫和」的人，只想做研究和教書，惟「咁卑微作為一個學者、一個老師嘅要求，最後都要承受一個咁大嘅代價」，對決定感到無奈。她難以定言簽證被拒的原因，但估計與其研究和教學有關，形容是很典型的「殺雞儆猴」，對研究中國議題的同行和學生造成寒蟬效應，影響學術自由。何嘆自己研究「流亡」的議題，最後反而成了其中一分子。
3 Oct 2023獨媒#8439
巴基斯坦籍人士遣返途中失知覺死亡 入境處：死因無可疑
The Immigration Department said recently that a Pakistani national was found to have suddenly lost consciousness during a flight to Pakistan for deportation. After the flight made an emergency landing, he was taken to hospital and was subsequently certified dead. The cause of death was not suspicious. In response to an inquiry from Initium Media, the Immigration Department said the man had previously filed a non-refoulement claim, which was not established, and that his application for judicial review to the High Court had also been rejected. At the time of his deportation, he was appealing to the Court of Final Appeal, and the case was still pending. The department also said he had been detained at Tai Tam Gap Correctional Institution before being deported and had been provided with prescription medication. His overall physical condition during detention was satisfactory. On the day of deportation, he did not report feeling unwell or request to take any medication. Medical staff observed his physical condition twice after take-off and found it normal, until he was found to have suddenly lost consciousness nearly 1.5 hours after take-off. The department reiterated that, based on the information provided by the authorities, the cause of death was not suspicious.
入境處日前表示，一名巴基斯坦籍人士在被遣返巴基斯坦的航班途中，被發現突然失去知覺，航班緊急降落後該人被送往醫院，其後證實不治，死因無可疑。入境處回覆《獨媒》查詢，指該人曾提出免遣返聲請但不獲確立，向高院提出司法覆核申請亦被拒，被遣送時正向終院提上訴，個案尚待處理。入境處並指，該人被遣送前被羈留於大潭峽懲教所，有獲處方藥物，他在羈留期間整體身體狀況令人滿意，遣送當日無表示不適或要求服用任何藥物，而處方人員在起飛後兩次觀察其身體狀況為正常，至起飛近1.5小時後發現他突然失去知覺，重申根據當局提供的資料，死因並無可疑。
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