Read the full judgment text of HCAL 719/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 4 December 2020.
1. The Applicant is a national of Bangladesh who arrived in Hong Kong on 23 April 2015 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 7 May 2015 when he did not depart and instead overstayed and was arrested by police on 4 September 2015. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Bangladesh he would be harmed or killed by the family of his neighbor who blamed him for the death of the neighbor and/or