Read the full judgment text of HCAL 413/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Pakistani national who claimed to have entered Hong Kong illegally on 8 August 2009 only to be arrested the following day. He raised a torture claim which was then taken to be a non-refoulement claim upon the commencement of the Unified Screening Mechanism in March 2014. The Director of Immigration (“the Director”) rejected his claim on 8 September 2016 and 30 March 2017. He lodged an appeal/petition to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which dismissed his appeal