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A 12-year-old boy who lived in Hong Kong without legal papers for nine years was voluntarily deported to the mainland after he was hounded out of the city by a campaign of harassment, according to a legislator.
Hostility against Siu Yau-wai and his grandmother Chow Siu-shuen, 67, escalated to the point where people were banging on their door in the middle of the night, said Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Wong Kwok-kin yesterday, a day after the two left for Shenzhen and disappeared across the border.
Yau-wai's case came to light when his grandmother contacted FTU legislator Chan Yuen-han, who paraded them before the media last month to highlight their plight and appeal to the Immigration Department to allow the boy to remain in Hong Kong.
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