Read the full judgment text of HCAL 385/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Pakistani national who claimed to have entered Hong Kong illegally on foot by climbing over the fence at the border from Shenzhen only to be arrested by the police on the same day on 8 December 2013. The applicant lodged a non-refoulement protection claim on 11 December. His claim was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 21 January 2016 and 8 May 2017. He lodged a petition/appeal to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which rejected his appeal