and re AFP detective assigned to HK:
Media/Blog items - 2015
Oct
4: Hard
copies of SCMP articles re US socialite tricked into drug
trafficking in HK
and re AFP detective assigned to HK:
On line copies: From Fifth Avenue penthouse to Hong Kong jail: How a US socialite became an unwitting drug mule in Hong Kong and Australian crime-buster posted to HK to tackle drug menace
Sep 30: Four women arrested at HK airport for drug trafficking
Sep 21: Two Filipino women arrested at HK airport - drugs in luggage (video)
Aug 17: The International Organization for Migration says that people forced/tricked into drug trafficking should be reclassified as "victims of human trafficking". This has huge ramifications.
Aug 17: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has produced Handbook on the international transfer of sentenced persons
August:
ABC
TV 7.30 Report from Australia
- about elderly and vulnerable people (including several inmates in HK whom I regularly visit)
being duped by African drug gangs into being drug
mules
May 8, 2015: NZ/Australia man faces death sentence in China
2015-03-19
Three Africans acquitted of HK drug trafficking charge
(c.f.
Feb 13 report, below, re SA cop..)
March
12, 2015: Elderly
foreigners being tricked into smuggling drugs out of HK
- all are in detention, facing long sentences, unlike Australia,
- c.f.
A difference between Hong Kong and Australia
March
14, 2015: Singapore
hangs two convicted drug dealers
(for 15 grams of heroin ....c.f. people bringing 1 or more
kilos to HK!)
Feb 22, 2015 - SCMP
Feb 14, 2015: HK drug courier, 15, gets nine years in prison
Feb 13, 2015: South African cop held in HK for drug smuggling (but report inaccurate: arrested at HK-China border, not at airport)
Jan 27, 2015: HK police arrest 6 African asylum seekers, seize illegal drugs and US$730000 cash