Read the full judgment text of HCAL 144/2022 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 June 2022.
1. The Applicant is a 60-year-old national of Vietnam who had repeatedly entered Hong Kong illegally in the past did so again sometime in 2020, and was arrested by police on 21 July 2020 for which she was subsequently convicted and sentenced to prison for 16 months. Upon her discharge from prison and was referred to the Immigration Department for deportation, she raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if she returned to Vietnam she would be harmed or killed by her creditor over her unp