Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2180/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 May 2023.
1. The Applicant is a 29-year-old national of Nepal who entered Hong Kong illegally on 20 January 2019 and was arrested by police on the same day. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Nepal he would be harmed or killed by his wife’s family who objected to their relationship and/or by the police for jumping bail for breaching certain hygiene rules in his restaurant.
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