Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1675/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 21 March 2024.
1. The Applicant is a 32-year-old national of Vietnam who entered Hong Kong illegally on 18 August 2020 and was arrested on 17 September 2020, for which she was subsequently charged and convicted with the offences of illegal entry and undertaking unauthorized employment, and was sentenced to prison for 15 months, during which she raised a non-refoulement claim for protection 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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