Read the full judgment text of HCAL 3474/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 August 2020.
1. The Applicant is a national of Bangladesh who entered Hong Kong illegally on 10 March 2012 and was arrested by police on 6 April 2013. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Bangladesh he would be harmed or killed by a fellow villager with political connections over some monetary dispute, and when his torture claim was rejected, he then raised a non-refoulement claim for protection on the same basis