Read the full judgment text of HCAL 596/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Nepalese national who arrived in Hong Kong on 16 January 2014 and was permitted to remain until 19 January 2014. He overstayed and was arrested by the police on 21 January 2014. He then lodged a non-refoulement protection claim which was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 11 June 2015. That claim included three grounds of risk; torture, BOR 3 and persecution. That decision was appealed and it was dismissed by the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TC