Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1422/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 September 2019.
1. The applicants, a mother and her three children, are all Coptic Christians of Egyptian nationality who arrived in Hong Kong on 8 December 2014 with permission to remain as visitors up to 8 March 2015 when they did not depart, and on the following day they surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if they returned to Egypt they would be persecuted, harmed or killed by reason of their Coptic Christian faith, and that the daughter, the 3 rd ap