Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1457/2022 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 June 2023.
1. The Applicant is a 54-year-old national of Vietnam who entered Hong Kong illegally on 29 January 2021 and was arrested by police more than one year later on 23 February 2022, for which she was subsequently convicted and sentenced to prison for 11 months, during which she raised a non-refoulement claim to the Immigration Department for protection on the basis that if she returned to Vietnam she would be harmed or killed by her creditor over her outstanding debts.
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