Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2659/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 4 September 2024.
1. The Applicant is a 52-year-old national of The Republic of the Congo (“Congo”) who arrived in Hong Kong on 1 November 2004 on a false French passport as a visitor with permission to remain for 3 months when he subsequently did not depart and instead overstayed, during which he made a refugee application to the UNHCR, and after it was rejected on 20 April 2005, he then surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Congo he would be har