Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1261/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 July 2023.
1. The Applicant is a 27-year-old national of Nigeria who arrived in Hong Kong on 2 December 2014 as a visitor with permission to remain up to 16 December 2014 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police on 21 January 2015. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Nigeria he would be harmed or killed by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram for refusing to join thei
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