Read the full judgment text of HCAL 435/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 July 2023.
1. The Applicants are mother and son respectively aged 52 and 25 years and nationals of the Philippines who arrived in Hong Kong on 16 October 2019 as visitors with permission to remain as such up to 30 October 2019 when they did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 1 November 2019 they surrendered to the Immigration Department and jointly raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if they returned to the Philippines they would be harmed or killed by their church Iglesia ni Cristo (Ch
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