Del Rosario was behind two prominent initiatives against China, including a 2013 case at an international arbitral tribunal which eventually ruled against Beijing's claim over most of the resource-rich waterway.
Hong Kong immigration officials had no immediate statement on the deportation but routinely decline to comment on individual cases. Earlier del Rosario had told local Manila television network ABS-CBN that he was given"no rational explanation" for his detention. Del Rosario said he had been in Hong Kong to attend a board and shareholders' meeting of a private company, and had asked the Philippine foreign department to inform the territory's authorities about his trip.
Friday's incident comes as the Duterte government seeks to calm public outrage over the June 9 sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel in an area of the South China Sea claimed by both countries.
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