Read the full judgment text of HCAL 325/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 31 May 2019.
1. The applicant is a 36-year-old national of Egypt who arrived in Hong Kong on 18 June 2015 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 16 September 2015 when he did not depart and instead overstayed and was arrested by police on 23 September 2015. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Egypt he would be harmed or killed for religious and/or political reasons, and later with supplemental basi