Read the full judgment text of HCAL 94/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 3 October 2019.
1. The applicant is a 37-year-old national of India who arrived in Hong Kong on 19 June 2014 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 3 July 2014 when he did not depart and instead overstayed and was arrested by police on 30 May 2016. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to India he would be harmed or killed by his neighbor over a land dispute in his home village.
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