Read the full judgment text of HCAL 113/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 22 June 2022.
1. The Applicant is a 44-year-old national of Sri Lanka who last arrived in Hong Kong on 30 May 2005 as a visitor with permission to remain up to 29 June 2005 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 16 November 2006 he surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a torture claim later taken as a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Sri Lanka he would be harmed or killed by the Sri Lankan police, military and authorities for being perceived or suspected