Read the full judgment text of HCAL 596/2023 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 18 January 2024.
1. The Applicant is a 53-year-old national of Vietnam who last entered Hong Kong illegally on 15 November 2020 and was arrested by police some 6 months later on 13 May 2021, for which she was subsequently convicted and sentenced to prison for 15 months. Upon her discharge from prison and was referred to the Immigration Department for deportation, she raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if she returned to Vietnam she would be harmed or killed by her creditor over her unpaid debts.
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