Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1940/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 22 October 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 31-year-old national of India who arrived in Hong Kong on 24 July 2013 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 7 August 2013 when he did not depart and instead overstayed and was arrested by police on 26 October 2013. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to India he would be harmed or killed by some men whom he witnessed to have committed a murder.