Read the full judgment text of HCAL 42/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 July 2019.
1. The applicant is a 37-year-old national of Nepal who arrived in Hong Kong on 11 January 2014 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 18 January 2014 when she did not depart and instead overstayed and was arrested by police on 26 January 2014. After she was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, she raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if she returned to Nepal she would be harmed or killed by her abusive husband and/or by her creditor for failing to repay h