Posts tagged imagebasedsexualabuse
ACSVAW Statement on the Passage of Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2021 in LegCo

The Legislative Council has passed the Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2021 on 30 September 2021. The amendment will patch a loophole that was prompted by the Court of Final Appeal’s 2019 ruling on the offence of ‘Access to computer with criminal or dishonest intent’ should not be applied to suspects using their own computer, and further criminalise a range of Image-Based Sexual Violence (IBSV) behaviours that involve non-consensual taking, sharing, and threatening to share intimate images.

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Insufficient Legal Protection on 'Threats to Share Intimate Images', ACSVAW New 'Take-Down Assistance' Supports Survivors to Make Removal Requests

On International Women’s Day (8th March), ACSVAW announces ‘Take-Down Assistance’ (‘Ta-DA’), a new service to assist victim-survivors of non-consensual distribution of intimate images to request online platforms for removal and related follow up. The Association, in the meantime, calls for the government to act proactively in safeguarding rights of victim-survivors that have experienced any forms of image-based sexual abuse, particularly to cover threats to sharing intimate images in the on-going legislative work on ‘Voyeurism, and non-consensual photography of intimate parts, and related offences.

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Ineffective Criminal Justice Responses Disappoint Victims of Non-consensual Distribution of Intimate Images

The Association has launched its latest report on Image-Based Sexual Violence (IBSV), “Survey Report on Image-Based Sexual Violence 影像性暴力經驗問卷調查報告,” at a press conference on 7 March 2020. The survey, completed between May, 2019 and January, 2020, consists of an online questionnaire which collected responses from 206 victim-survivors and in-depth interviews with 11 victims-survivors

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LRC's Report on Voyeurism and Non-consensual Upskirt Photography patches current legal loopholes though lacks protection for victims of non-consensual distribution of intimate images

The Association welcomes the recent release of Report on Voyeurism and Non-consensual Upskirt Photography by the Law Reform Commission (LRC) on the 30th April 2019. The Association would anticipate the proposed legal reform can be implemented as soon as possible to patch the current legal loopholes.

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10 years on from the Edison Chen scandal, what has Hong Kong learned about image-based sexual abuse?

Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) exists on a continuum, covering many different forms of activities. In the Edison Chen incident, IBSA manifests in the 1) stealing, 2) non-consensual dissemination and 3) non-consensual viewing of private sexual images. Other types include “upskirting,” “revenge porn,” sexual extortion, recording of sexual assaults, and “sexualised photoshopping.”

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