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Whitehead Detention Center was the largest of Hong Kong’s closed camps built to temporarily house Vietnamese asylum-seekers during the 1980s and 90s, when Hong Kong was a port of first asylum. Operational from 1989 to 1997, its official capacity was 28,000 internees. Like most other closed camps, Whitehead was run by the Correctional Services Department, and the conditions were prison-like.
In the mid-1990s, the Center was the site of multiple protests as Hong Kong officials carried out the policy of forced repatriation to Vietnam. Some internees had lived by then at Whitehead long enough to come of age and begin families in the camp. In 1995, human rights lawyers for several Vietnamese internees filed habeus corpus petitions, arguing that the Hong Kong government could not indefinitely detain their clients and must release them from administrative custody. The success of these petitions strengthened Hong Kong’s rule of law in the years immediately preceding the colony’s return to China, a country without habeus corpus protections.
When the Detention Center was built, the area was rural, but over the years the city of Ma On Shan grew up around it and the land became increasingly valuable. Since its closure in 1997, the grounds have been gradually developed into a golf driving range and several luxury housing estates. The lone Detention Center building still standing in 2009 has been replaced by a construction site slated to become a dormitory for City University of Hong Kong students. The dormitory is projected to open in 2026, the 30th anniversary of the largest Vietnamese anti-repatriation protests at Whitehead.
Photo credit: Google Maps Street View, ©2009, 2017, 2019, 2023
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Whitehead Detention Center was the largest of Hong Kong’s closed camps built to temporarily house Vietnamese asylum-seekers during the 1980s and 90s, when Hong Kong was a port of first asylum. Operational from 1989 to 1997, its official capacity was 28,000 internees. Like most other closed camps, Whitehead was run by the Correctional Services Department, and the conditions were prison-like.
In the mid-1990s, the Center was the site of multiple protests as Hong Kong officials carried out the policy of forced repatriation to Vietnam. Some internees had lived by then at Whitehead long enough to come of age and begin families in the camp. In 1995, human rights lawyers for several Vietnamese internees filed habeus corpus petitions, arguing that the Hong Kong government could not indefinitely detain their clients and must release them from administrative custody. The success of these petitions strengthened Hong Kong’s rule of law in the years immediately preceding the colony’s return to China, a country without habeus corpus protections.
When the Detention Center was built, the area was rural, but over the years the city of Ma On Shan grew up around it and the land became increasingly valuable. Since its closure in 1997, the grounds have been gradually developed into a golf driving range and several luxury housing estates. The lone Detention Center building still standing in 2009 has been replaced by a construction site slated to become a dormitory for City University of Hong Kong students. The dormitory is projected to open in 2026, the 30th anniversary of the largest Vietnamese anti-repatriation protests at Whitehead.
Photo credit: Google Maps Street View, ©2009, 2017, 2019, 2023
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Whitehead Detention Center was the largest of Hong Kong’s closed camps built to temporarily house Vietnamese asylum-seekers during the 1980s and 90s, when Hong Kong was a port of first asylum. Operational from 1989 to 1997, its official capacity was 28,000 internees. Like most other closed camps, Whitehead was run by the Correctional Services Department, and the conditions were prison-like.
In the mid-1990s, the Center was the site of multiple protests as Hong Kong officials carried out the policy of forced repatriation to Vietnam. Some internees had lived by then at Whitehead long enough to come of age and begin families in the camp. In 1995, human rights lawyers for several Vietnamese internees filed habeus corpus petitions, arguing that the Hong Kong government could not indefinitely detain their clients and must release them from administrative custody. The success of these petitions strengthened Hong Kong’s rule of law in the years immediately preceding the colony’s return to China, a country without habeus corpus protections.
When the Detention Center was built, the area was rural, but over the years the city of Ma On Shan grew up around it and the land became increasingly valuable. Since its closure in 1997, the grounds have been gradually developed into a golf driving range and several luxury housing estates. The lone Detention Center building still standing in 2009 has been replaced by a construction site slated to become a dormitory for City University of Hong Kong students. The dormitory is projected to open in 2026, the 30th anniversary of the largest Vietnamese anti-repatriation protests at Whitehead.
Photo credit: Google Maps Street View, ©2009, 2017, 2019, 2023
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Whitehead Detention Center was the largest of Hong Kong’s closed camps built to temporarily house Vietnamese asylum-seekers during the 1980s and 90s, when Hong Kong was a port of first asylum. Operational from 1989 to 1997, its official capacity was 28,000 internees. Like most other closed camps, Whitehead was run by the Correctional Services Department, and the conditions were prison-like.
In the mid-1990s, the Center was the site of multiple protests as Hong Kong officials carried out the policy of forced repatriation to Vietnam. Some internees had lived by then at Whitehead long enough to come of age and begin families in the camp. In 1995, human rights lawyers for several Vietnamese internees filed habeus corpus petitions, arguing that the Hong Kong government could not indefinitely detain their clients and must release them from administrative custody. The success of these petitions strengthened Hong Kong’s rule of law in the years immediately preceding the colony’s return to China, a country without habeus corpus protections.
When the Detention Center was built, the area was rural, but over the years the city of Ma On Shan grew up around it and the land became increasingly valuable. Since its closure in 1997, the grounds have been gradually developed into a golf driving range and several luxury housing estates. The lone Detention Center building still standing in 2009 has been replaced by a construction site slated to become a dormitory for City University of Hong Kong students. The dormitory is projected to open in 2026, the 30th anniversary of the largest Vietnamese anti-repatriation protests at Whitehead.
Photo credit: Google Maps Street View, ©2009, 2017, 2019, 2023
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