Hong Kong SAR

Is selling sex criminalised?
Selling sex is legal if done indoors by sex workers working alone. Soliciting in a public place or advertising sex services are illegal. Small groups of sex workers working together in indoor premises are also criminalised for running brothels or 'vice establishments'
Is buying sex criminalised?
No
Is organising/managing criminalised?
Yes - brothel keeping is criminalised as is 'living on the earnings of prostitution' and procuring.
Is there mandatory HIV/STI testing?
No
Is there mandatory registration?
No
Is sex work recognised as work?
No
Is sex work decriminalised with limited regulation?
No
Sources/further reading
Crimes Ordinance of Hong Kong - http://www.legislation.gov.hk/blis_pdf.nsf/6799165D2FEE3FA94825755E0033… Info on Laws from Action for Reach Out (NGO in Hong Kong) - https://www.afro.org.hk/EN/info.php UNDP et al (2012) Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific: Laws, HIV and human rights in the context of sex work, available at http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/hivaids/English/HIV-2012-S… https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2132344/laws-prot…
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