Read the full judgment text of HCAL 401/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 10 May 2019.
1. The applicant is a 43-year-old national of Sri Lanka who last arrived in Hong Kong on 9 June 2006 with a false identity and with permission to remain as a visitor up to 23 June 2006 when he did not depart and instead overstayed until he was arrested by police on 12 March 2008. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he revealed his true identity and lodged a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Sri Lanka he would be harmed or killed by some gangste