Detainees at CIC as at August 2021
Dear Immigration Department,
I would appreciate if you could provide the number of detainees at the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Detention Centre as at 18 August 2021 (or any other date that is convenient to you for the purpose of collating relevant information under this request), disaggregated by:
(1) Detainees’ age (under 18, 18 – 30, 31- 40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80, Above 80 or other categories as appropriate)
(2) Detainees’ sex (male, female, transgender)
(3) Detainees’ nationality (please provide a breakdown of all nationalities)
(4) Detainees’ immigration status (non-refoulement claimants (“NFCs”) within the USM, former NFCs with ongoing judicial review applications, former NFCs pending removal, illegal entrants (excluding NFCs), overstayers (excluding NFCs), persons refused entry (excluding NFCs), former foreign national prisoners pending removal and other categories as appropriate)
Thank you very much for your assistance on this.
Kind Regards,
Preston Cheung
Our Reference: L/M (2) in ImmD CIC/6-5/10 (R) Pt.2
Dear Preston Cheung,
Our department has received your application for access to information on
18.08.2021. Your application is now under processing. According to
paragraph 1.16 of the Code on Access to Information, our department will
inform you of the latest progress of the case separately on or before
07.09.2021.
If you have any enquiry, please contact the undersigned via this email.
Best Regards,
YU Wing-shan
for Director of Immigration
Dear Ms Yu,
I refer to your acknowledgement of this information request dated 19 August 2021, setting the target response time as 7 September 2021.
Could you please advise on the status of this request? Thank you for your assistance on this.
Kind regards,
Preston Cheung
Our Reference: L/M (2) in ImmD CIC/6-5/10 (R) Pt.2
Dear Preston Cheung,
I refer to your request for access to information on 18 August 2021 and
our interim reply to you on 19 August 2021.
Kindly note that attempts have been made to send the final reply to you
via email on 3, 6 and 10 September 2021 respectively but in vain due to
connection refused by your email server.
I hereby provide you the following information.
The number of detainees at the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (“CIC”)
as at 31 July 2021, disaggregated by:
1. Detainees’ age:
Breakdown on the number of detainees at the CIC by age:
Under 18: 0
18–30: 57
31-40: 122
41-50: 65
51-60: 21
61-70: 5
71-80: 1
Above 80: 0
Total: 271
2. Detainees’ sex:
Breakdown on the number of detainees at the CIC by sex:
Male: 166
Female: 105
Transgender: 0
Total: 271
3. Detainees’ nationality:
Breakdown on the number of detainees at the CIC by countries/ territories:
Afghanistan: 2
Bangladesh: 9
Chinese (Stateless): 1
Mainland China: 66
Colombia: 2
Gambia: 1
Indonesia: 32
India: 43
Kenya: 4
Sri Lanka: 1
Madagascar: 2
Mexico: 1
Mongolia: 1
Nigeria: 2
Nepal: 9
Pakistan: 23
Philippines: 18
Russian Federation: 1
Thailand: 5
Taiwan (Province of China): 1
Tanzania: 5
Uganda: 4
United States of America: 1
Venezuela: 1
Vietnam: 35
Zimbabwe: 1
Total: 271
4. Overview of Detainees at CIC as at 31 July 2021:
Non-refoulement claimants^#: 178
Overstayers: 15
Illegal immigrants: 65
Other offenders liable to be removed: 13
Total: 271
^#Remarks:
On 31 July 2021, there were 178 detainees at the Castle Peak Bay
Immigration Centre ("CIC") who had lodged non-refoulement claims. Amongst
them, 68 were pending final determination of their claims, while the
remaining 110 were pending removal from Hong Kong, including those who
were rejected non-refoulement claimants having lodged applications for
judicial review to the courts and the removal arrangements were suspended
under the prevailing policy. The number of claimants under detention
varies from time to time, depending on the changes in the circumstances of
individual cases.
I hope the information is useful to you.
Best Regards,
YU Wing-shan
for Director of Immigration
Dear Ms Yu,
Thank you very much for your assistance on this information request and apologies for the technical issues with the email server on my side.
As I gather that the ImmD's practice would be to compile statistics on the immigration detainee population at the end of each month, could you please provide statistics on the same items as of 31 August 2021?
That is to say, please kindly provide the number of detainees at the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Detention Centre as at 31 August 2021, disaggregated by:
(1) Detainees’ age (under 18, 18 – 30, 31- 40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80, Above 80 or other categories as appropriate)
(2) Detainees’ sex (male, female, transgender)
(3) Detainees’ nationality (please provide a breakdown of all nationalities)
(4) Detainees’ immigration status (non-refoulement claimants (“NFCs”) within the USM, former NFCs with ongoing judicial review applications, former NFCs pending removal, illegal entrants (excluding NFCs), overstayers (excluding NFCs), persons refused entry (excluding NFCs), former foreign national prisoners pending removal and other categories as appropriate)
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
Preston Cheung
Dear Ms Yu,
I refer to my email dated 15 September 2021 requesting the same data items at of the end of August 2021 (i.e. 31 August 2021). Could you please provide an status on this request?
If it is more convenient for your practice, you could also provide the same data items at of the end of September 2021 (i.e. 30 September 2021), in lieu of the August data.
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
Preston Cheung
Dear Preston Cheung,
Thanks for your email of 6 October 2021.
Regarding your access to information request on the caption subject, you
may wish to note that we did not receive the said request dated 15
September 2021 mentioned in your email before. In this connection, we
should be grateful if you would provide us on or before 14 October 2021
the details of that request for our processing.
Best regards
(Mr. W M Fung)
for Director of Immigration
From: Preston Cheung <[FOI #718 email]>
To: FOI requests at Immigration Department <[Immigration Department request email]>
Date: 06/10/2021 12:46
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Detainees at CIC as
at August 2021
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Dear Ms Yu,
I refer to my email dated 15 September 2021 requesting the same data items
at of the end of August 2021 (i.e. 31 August 2021). Could you please
provide an status on this request?
If it is more convenient for your practice, you could also provide the
same data items at of the end of September 2021 (i.e. 30 September 2021),
in lieu of the August data.
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
Preston Cheung
Dear Mr Fung,
Thanks for clarifying. Please refer to my request dated 15 September 2021 available at https://accessinfo.hk/en/request/detaine....
In this case, it would be appreciated if you could kindly provide the number of detainees at the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Detention Centre as of 30 September 2021, disaggregated by:
(1) Detainees’ age (under 18, 18 – 30, 31- 40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80, Above 80 or other categories as appropriate)
(2) Detainees’ sex (male, female, transgender)
(3) Detainees’ nationality (please provide a breakdown of all nationalities)
(4) Detainees’ immigration status (non-refoulement claimants (“NFCs”) within the USM, former NFCs with ongoing judicial review applications, former NFCs pending removal, illegal entrants (excluding NFCs), overstayers (excluding NFCs), persons refused entry (excluding NFCs), former foreign national prisoners pending removal and other categories as appropriate)
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
Preston Cheung
Our Reference: L/M (2) in ImmD CIC/6-5/10 (R) Pt.2
Dear Preston Cheung,
Our department has received your follow-up application for access to
information on 07.10.2021. Your application is now under processing.
According to paragraph 1.16 of the Code on Access to Information, our
department will inform you of the latest progress of the case separately
on or before 27.10.2021.
If you have any enquiry, please contact the undersigned via this email.
Best Regards,
CHEUNG Kai-ho
for Director of Immigration
Our Reference: L/M (2) in ImmD CIC/6-5/10 (R) Pt.2
Dear Preston Cheung,
I refer to your request for access to information on 7 October 2021 and
our interim reply to you on 15 October 2021. I hereby provide you the
following information.
The number of detainees at the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (“CIC”)
as at 30 September 2021, disaggregated by:
1. Detainees’ age:
Breakdown on the number of detainees at the CIC by age:
Under 18: 0
18–30: 54
31-40: 120
41-50: 78
51-60: 25
61-70: 5
71-80: 0
Above 80: 0
Total: 282
2. Detainees’ sex:
Breakdown on the number of detainees at the CIC by sex:
Male: 181
Female: 100
Transgender: 1
Total: 282
3. Detainees’ nationality:
Breakdown on the number of detainees at the CIC by countries/ territories:
Afghanistan: 2
Bangladesh: 10
Mainland China: 42
Colombia: 1
Germany: 1
Gambia: 2
Indonesia: 37
India: 49
Kenya: 2
Korea (Republic of): 1
Sri Lanka: 4
Madagascar: 1
Mongolia: 2
Mozambique: 1
Nigeria: 1
Nepal: 11
Pakistan: 30
Philippines: 21
Russian Federation: 1
Thailand: 8
Tonga: 1
Tanzania: 6
Uganda: 2
Ukraine: 1
U.S.A.: 1
Vietnam: 43
Zimbabwe: 1
Total: 282
4. Overview of Detainees at the CIC as at 30 September 2021:
Non-refoulement claimants^#: 206
Overstayers: 20
Illegal immigrants: 39
Other offenders liable to be removed: 17
Total: 282
^#Remarks:
On 30 September 2021, there were 206 detainees at the CIC who had lodged
non-refoulement claims. Amongst them, 66 were pending final determination
of their claims, while the remaining 140 were pending removal from Hong
Kong, including those who were rejected non-refoulement claimants having
lodged applications for judicial review to the courts and the removal
arrangements were suspended under the prevailing policy. The number of
claimants under detention varies from time to time, depending on the
changes in the circumstances of individual cases.
I hope the information is useful to you.
Best Regards,
CHEUNG Kai-ho
for Director of Immigration
