Read the full judgment text of HCAL 695/2017 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 16 June 2014 only to be arrested by the police on the same day. He then lodged a non-refoulement protection claim which was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 26 April 2016 and 30 June 2017. The applicant lodged an appeal/petition with the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which rejected his appeal on 26 September 2017. He then filed a notice of application for lea