Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2662/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 3 December 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 43-year-old national of Sierra Leone who arrived in Hong Kong on 27 August 2017 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 7 September 2017 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 11 September 2017 he surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Sierra Leone he would be harmed or killed by his wife and her family and/or the community and/or the authorities for his homosexual conduct and acti