Read the full judgment text of HCAL 241/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 June 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 38-year-old national of Nigeria who arrived in Hong Kong on 7 June 2008 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 14 June 2008 when he did not depart and instead overstayed until he was arrested by police on 6 May 2009. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Nigeria he would be harmed or killed by supporters of rival political party People’s Democratic Party (“PDP”) who had alre