Read the full judgment text of HCAL 357/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 25 May 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 42-year-old national of Vietnam who had repeatedly entered Hong Kong illegally with the last occasion on 12 October 2013 and was arrested by police on the same day, for which he was convicted and sentenced to prison for 32 months. Upon his release from prison and was then referred to the Immigration Department, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Vietnam he would be harmed or killed by some local commune-officials over a land dispute.