Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1242/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 April 2024.
1. The Applicant is a 45-year-old national of Sri Lanka who arrived in Hong Kong on 6 March 2008 as a visitor under a passport of another identity with permission to remain as such up to 20 March 2008 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police on 15 June 2008. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation whereupon a removal order was issued against him, the Applicant then raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Sri Lanka