Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2207/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 January 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 41-year-old national of Bangladesh who last entered Hong Kong illegally on 14 August 2007 and was arrested by police on 9 May 2008. After he was charged and subsequently convicted of the offence of illegally remaining in Hong Kong and had served 15 months’ imprisonment, he raised a torture claim later taken as a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Bangladesh he would be harmed or killed by certain local supporters of rival political party Bangladesh N
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