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Call to close loopholes in Hong Kong’s child sexual offence bill

South China Morning Post · · 199 words · By Theodora Yu
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“More than 30 groups and individuals have collectively called on the government to close loopholes in Hong Kong’s child sexual offence bill”
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The claim states 'More than 30 groups and individuals have collectively called on the government...'. The evidence shows one web search result mentioning 'Four non-governmental organisations' calling for amendments, and another mentioning 'NGOs' generally. No source corroborates the specific number 'More than 30 groups and individuals'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Filipino non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Hong Kong were founded by both the Filipinos and the local Chinese who aim to assist and serve the Filipino community. There are mainly three types of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_NGOs_in_Hong_Kong
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nepalese non-government organisations in Hong Kong consist of all the community-based non-government organisations (NGOs) set up to assist the Nepalese ethnic minority communities living in Hong Kong.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_non-government_organi…
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“The bill will introduce changes to existing laws recommended by the Law Reform Commission following its reviews of sexual offences and sentences released in 2019 and 2022”
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Two separate web search results explicitly state that the bill incorporates recommendations from the Law Reform Commission following its reviews in 2019 and 2022. One source mentions the 2019 and 2022 reports directly, and another discusses building upon the 2019 recommendations.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港法律改革委員會) is an independent, non-statutory public body that proposes reforms to the law of Hong Kong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Reform_Commission_of_Hong_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A law commission, law reform commission, or law revision commission is an independent body set up by a government to conduct law reform; that is, to consider the state of laws in a jurisdiction and ma…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_commission
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“The bill will establish new sexual offences involving children and people with mental impairments”
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Two different web search results indicate the bill creates new offenses. One mentions 'new criminal offences to protect children against grooming' and 'fresh measures to protect children from online' issues. Another mentions Part 6 dealing with 'new offences created under this Bill to enable the prosecution of offences committed against children'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Part 6 of the Bill deals with amendments to existing jurisdiction legislation to include new offences created under this Bill to enable the prosecution of offences committed against children outside t…
https://agsi.ie/articles/criminal-law-sexual-offences-bill-2…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 was published on Wednesday following its approval by Cabinet. The planned legislation contains new criminal offences to protect children against grooming a…
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/sexual-offence…
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web search NEUTRAL — This prohibits sexual contact between adults and children under 18 in schools, colleges and residential care. Creates a number of offences related to "intent" including a new offence targeting drinks …
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/200…
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