Read the full judgment text of HCAL 536/2017 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 24 November 2013 only to be arrested by the police two days later. He claimed to have left Bangladesh on 11 July 2012 and lived in Shenzhen, China for 16 months before entering Hong Kong. He then lodged a non-refoulement protection claim which the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) rejected on 12 April 2016 and 27 January 2017. The applicant lodged an appeal/petition with the Torture Cl