Read the full judgment text of HCAL 245/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 March 2018.
1. The applicant is a 29-year old Pakistani man who entered Hong Kong illegally in about early March 2012 and was subsequently arrested by the police on 4 May 2012. On the following day he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation where he subsequently on 6 May 2012 raised his non-refoulement protection claim on the ground that he came to Hong Kong to escape from the terrorist group Taliban and that he would be harmed or killed by them if he is to return to Pakistan.