Read the full judgment text of HCAL 3443/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 October 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 37-year-old national of Pakistan who entered Hong Kong illegally in July 2006 and was arrested by the immigration officers on 4 October 2006. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim later taken as a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Pakistan he would be harmed or killed by some local followers of Deobandi, an Islamic revivalist movement within Sunni Islam over some religious dispute.