Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2453/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 October 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 40-year-old national of Pakistan who entered Hong Kong illegally on 26 July 2008 and was arrested by police on 16 September 2008. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Pakistan he would be harmed or killed by his uncle over a land dispute, and after his torture claim was rejected, he then sought non-refoulement protection on the same basis.