Read the full judgment text of HCAL 73/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 11 January 2019.
1. The applicant is a 36-year-old national of Bangladesh who entered Hong Kong illegally on 15 July 2014 and was arrested by police on the same day. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he lodged a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Bangladesh he would be harmed or killed by supporters of rival political party Awami League (“AL”) for refusing to leave his party Jamaat-e-Islami (“JeI”) or to join AL. He was then released on recognizance p