Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2392/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 August 2020.
1. The Applicant is a national of Nigeria who arrived in Hong Kong on 25 August 2015 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 8 September 2015 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 14 September 2015 he surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Nigeria he would be harmed or killed by a fellow villager over some disputes with his family in his home village.