Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1350/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 July 2024.
1. The Applicant is a 31-year-old national of Pakistan who entered Hong Kong illegally on 22 March 2015 and subsequently surrendered to the Immigration Department on 2 April 2015 when he raised a non-refoulement claim for protection on the basis that if he returned to Pakistan he would be harmed or killed by certain Muslims for converting his religion from Islam to Christianity and/or prosecuted by the Pakistani authorities under the blasphemy law. He was subsequently released on recognizance pe