Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1091/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 June 2018.
1. The applicant is a 39-year-old national of Vietnam who was brought to Hong Kong as a refugee in 1991 when he was 12 years old, and while being detained together with other Vietnamese refugees in Whitehead Detention Centre, he was involved in an incidentin 1994 in which a fellow Vietnamese refugee was killed and for which he was convictedof murder and subsequently sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment for the fact that he was then only aged 15 when the crime was committed.
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