Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1571/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 May 2024.
1. The Applicant is a 50-year-old national of the West African country The Republic of Niger (“Niger”) who arrived in Hong Kong on 15 December 2014 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 29 December 2014 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 5 January 2015 he surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Niger he would be harmed or killed by his former slave master. He was subsequently released on re
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