Published: 1:56pm, 27 Apr 2025Updated: 1:59pm, 27 Apr 2025
Hong Kong police have arrested 10 people for allegedly providing services related to baby gender selection and arranging surrogate mothers.
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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 that they had received a tip-off earlier that a local company had advertised on two websites, claiming that they could allow customers to choose their babies’ gender and connect them with surrogate mothers.
They added that such promotion violated the Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance.
According to the ordinance, no person in Hong Kong 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.
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However, the legislation also lists some exceptions, such as preventing the birth of a child with a sex-linked genetic disease.