Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1744/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 November 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 43-year-old national of Nepal who entered Hong Kong illegally on 12 May 2016 and was arrested by police on the same day. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Nepal he would be harmed or killed by a fellow villager in his home village over some personal dispute.