Read the full judgment text of HCAL 390/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is an Indian national who arrived in Hong Kong on 2 April 2011 but overstayed illegally. The applicant was arrested over one year later on 22 July 2012 for overstaying and only then did he raise a torture claim which then became a non-refoulement protection claim in 2014. It was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 13 January 2016 and 13 February 2017. The applicant lodged an appeal/petition to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which rejected his