Read the full judgment text of HCAL 223/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 19 June 2023.
1. The Applicant is a 50-year-old national of Sri Lanka who entered Hong Kong illegally sometime in 2009 and was arrested by police 4 years later in 2013. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Sri Lanka he would be harmed or killed by his girlfriend’s husband and/or her family over their extra-marital affair.