Read the full judgment text of HCAL 319/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 November 2023.
1. The Applicant is a 52-year-old national of the Philippines who arrived in Hong Kong on 2 October 2011 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 19 October 2011 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police almost 2 years later on 21 July 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 the Philippines he would be harmed or killed by a fellow villager and/or
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