Read the full judgment text of HCAL 257/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 April 2018.
1. The applicant is a 33-year-old man of Ghanaian national who last entered Hong Kong on 13 November 2005 with permission to remain as a visitor until 27 November 2005. He did not depart and instead overstayed until 10 December 2007 when he surrendered to the Immigration Department and lodged a torture claim on the basis that if he were to return to Ghana he would be harmed or killed by his Muslim neighbours due to his father’s dispute with them over certain farmland in his homeland. He was su