Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1070/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 December 2018.
1. The applicant is a 26-year-old national of Nepal who arrived in Hong Kong on 21 November 2015 but when he was refused entry by the Immigration Department he lodged a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Nepal he would be harmed or killed by supporters of rival political party Nepal Communist Party (United Marxist Leninist) (“UML”). He was initially detained at the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (“CIC”) but was later released on recognizance pending the determination