Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2676/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 July 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 32-year-old national of Bangladesh who entered Hong Kong illegally on 3 June 2014 and was arrested by police on the same day. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Bangladesh he would be harmed or killed by certain local supporters of political party Awami League (“AL”) as he was a student member of rival party Jamaat-e-Islami (“JEI”).