Read the full judgment text of HCAL 935/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 August 2018.
1. The applicant is a national of Nepal who entered Hong Kong illegally on 23 November 2006 and was arrested by the police on 24 March 2007. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he lodged a torture claim on 12 August 2008 on the basis that if he returned to Nepal he would be harmed or killed by the Maoists over a land dispute with his step-grandmother’s family, and upon the commencement of the Unified Screening Mechanism his claim was treated as a non-refouleme