Estebal Cyril Lyn Belleza alias Estebal Cyril Lyn alias Estebal Cyril Lyn B alias Estebal Cyril Lyn Bellez alias Bellez Cyril Lyn alias Belleza Cyril Lyn v Torture Claims Appeal Board

Read the full judgment text of HCAL 744/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 18 October 2022.

1. The Applicant is a 34-year-old national of the Philippines who last arrived in Hong Kong on 8 March 2019 as a visitor with permission to remain up to 22 March 2019 when she did not depart and instead overstayed, and some 6 months later she surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if she returned to the Philippines she would be harmed or killed by her former boyfriend over their domestic dispute. She was subsequently released on recognizanc

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