Read the full judgment text of HCAL 171/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Bangladeshi national who claimed to have entered Hong Kong illegally on 8 November 2013 only to be arrested on the same day. He lodged a torture claim on 11 November 2013 but upon the commencement of the unified screening mechanism on 3 March 2014 his claim was taken to be a non-refoulement protection claim. That claim was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 30 December 2015 and 1 November 2016. The applicant lodged a petition/appeal to the Torture