Court throws out Hong Kong couple’s challenge to daughter’s guardianship in Sweden

The custody of a Hong Kong couple’s four-year-old daughter remains in the balance after a Swedish court threw out their attempted appeal against the local social welfare administration’s application to transfer her legal guardianship to a foster family.The Swedish Social Welfare Committee said in a report dated June 3 that the child, Lily, had to be protected from a “rootless and insecure existence” under the care of her biological parents Tsang Wai-bong and Kwan Pui-sin, according to documents obtained by the South China Morning Post.The committee also said it had applied to the local court to appoint the girl’s foster parents, whom she had lived with since May 2024, as her “specially appointed legal guardians”.