Read the full judgment text of HCAL 48/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 October 2022.
1. The Applicant is a 43-year-old national of Pakistan who entered Hong Kong illegally sometime in October 2006 and was arrested by police on 25 September 2009. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Pakistan he would be harmed or killed by the Pakistani authorities and/or the Muslim community for being a member of the spiritual organization known as Messiah Foundation International (“MFI”) whose teachi