Read the full judgment text of HCAL 443/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Bangladeshi national who claimed to have entered Hong Kong illegally by boat on 17 August 2014 only to be arrested on the same day. He then lodged a non‑refoulement protection claim which was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 11 April 2016 and 9 June 2017. The applicant then lodged an appeal/petition to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which rejected his appeal on 18 July 2017. The applicant filed a notice of application for leave to app