Read the full judgment text of HCAL 55/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 April 2022.
1. The Applicant is a 51-year-old national of the Philippines who arrived in Hong Kong on 7 June 2016 as a visitor with permission to remain as extended up to 10 July 2016 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 15 July 2016 he surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to the Philippines he would be harmed or killed by the local drug dealers and syndicate for suspecting that he had informed on their illegal activit