People fighting mental illness in Hong Kong often face involuntary hospitalisation and placement on compulsory treatments which include forced medication and living in halfway homes. They report losing agency over their lives as they can no longer hold on to relationships, jobs, and even their sense of worth.
Walter is from Hong Kong and was wrongly accused of an inclination to violence and unfairly placed under a conditional discharge order for many years. HKDI helped him to prepare a judicial review to challenge the legality of conditional discharge orders, while our counselling services provided him a much needed opportunity to process his trauma.
Trafficked and exploited at an early age, the Wong siblings were victims who had no recourse to support, protection and rehabilitation from their trauma. Now almost 60 years old, HKDI is assisting them in obtaining legal advice to explore ways to address the system’s failure, so that others do not need to go through the same ordeal.
