Read the full judgment text of HCAL 25/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 September 2018.
1. The applicant is a 53-year-old national of Bangladesh who last arrived in Hong Kong on 14 January 2006 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 28 January 2006 but he did not depart and instead overstayed until 5 October 2007 when he was arrested by the police. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he lodged a torture claim on 27 December 2007 on the basis that if he returned to Bangladesh he would be harmed or killed by various fractions of Muslims for c