Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1067/2022 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 July 2023.
1. The Applicant is a 31-year-old national of Mexico who last arrived in Hong Kong on 22 January 2020 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 5 July 2020 as extended when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police more than 7 months later on 11 February 2021. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Mexico he would be harmed or killed by some local gangsters
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