Hong Kong police arrest 10 over sex selection and surrogacy services

Hong Kong police arrest 10 over sex selection and surrogacy services

Hong Kong police have arrested 10 people for allegedly providing services related to the sex selection of a baby and finding surrogate mothers.

The suspects, four men and six women aged between 30 and 70, were taken into custody on Friday and Saturday during raids on an office in Central and their residences.

Police said on Saturday night they had received a tip-off earlier that a local company was advertising on two websites with claims customers could choose their babies’ sex and be connected to surrogate mothers.

The force added that such promotion violated the Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance.

According to the ordinance, no person is permitted to enable the sex selection of embryos through reproductive technology procedures, negotiate the arrangement of surrogacy services for commercial purposes or publish, distribute or promote the two services, even if they are not performed in Hong Kong.

But the legislation also lists some exceptions, such as preventing the birth of children with a genetic disease linked to their sex.

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