Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2285/2024 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 May 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 29-year-old national of Afghanistan who entered Hong Kong illegally on 8 July 2024 and surrendered to the Immigration Department on 15 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 Taliban government for violating the ban and repeated warnings not to give tuitions to girls beyond the 6 th grade imposed by the Taliban on the country.