Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1257/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 3 July 2023.
1. The Applicant is a 54-year-old national of Sri Lanka who arrived in Hong Kong on 27 August 2007 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 10 September 2007 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police some 6 months later on 12 March 2008. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim later taken as a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Sri Lanka he would be harmed or killed by some
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