Read the full judgment text of HCAL 501/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Pakistani national who claims to have entered Hong Kong illegally on 1 November 2012. He was arrested on 24 April 2013 for having remained in Hong Kong after entering unlawfully and for using another person’s identity card. After his arrest he then lodged a non-refoulement protection claim. This was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“Director”) on 16 May 2016 and 11 April 2017. The applicant lodged an appeal/petition to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) wh