Read the full judgment text of HCAL 97/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 July 2022.
1. The Applicant is a 37-year-old national of Cote d’Ivoire or Ivory Coast who arrived in Hong Kong on 17 June 2019 as a visitor with permission to remain up to 19 June 2019 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 25 June 2019 he surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Cote d’Ivoire he would be harmed or killed by his paternal uncles and cousins over his conversion of his religion from Islam to Christianity. H
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