Read the full judgment text of HCAL 363/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Bangladeshi national who claimed to have entered Hong Kong illegally by boat on 7 July 2014 only to be immediately arrested by the police. The applicant lodged a non-refoulement protection claim on 12 July 2014 which was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 1 April 2016 and 8 May 2017. He then lodged an appeal/petition to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which rejected his appeal on 8 June 2017. The applicant then filed a notice of applicat