Read the full judgment text of HCAL 000041/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 September 1997.
1. The applicants are ethnic Chinese. They used to live in Vietnam. However, they fled from Vietnam cause of the treatment of ethnic Chinese in Vietnam in the aftermath of the Sino-Vietnamese war. They settled in China in . They claim that in China they were not accorded rights analogous to those enjoy by Chinese citizens. As a result, they fled to Hong Kong. They have been in detention in Hong Kong even since. In this application for habeas corpus, they seek their release from detention.