Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2281/2024 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 March 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 27-year-old national of Afghanistan who entered Hong Kong illegally on 17 July 2024 and surrendered to the Immigration Department on 23 July 2024 when he raised a non-refoulement claim for protection on the basis that if he returned to Afghanistan he would be harmed or killed by the family of his neighbor in revenge for killing his neighbor over some altercation between the 2 of them and/or by the Afghanistan authorities controlled by the Taliban for causing death to his ne