Read the full judgment text of HCAL 499/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 November 2022.
1. The Applicant is a 53-year-old national of the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”) (formerly known as Zaire) who arrived in Hong Kong on 18 September 2003 on a suspected fake passport, and when she was refused entry by the Immigration Department, she sought a refugee status from UNHCR, and after it was refused by UNHCR in 2009, she then raised a torture claim later taken as a non-refoulement claim for protection on the basis that if she returned to the DRC she would be at risk of: