Hettiarachchige Thisera Dinesh Pushpakumara alias Hettiarachchige Thisera D Pushpakumaraalias Hettiarachchige Denesh Pushpakumaraalias Hettiarachchige Thisera Dinesh P v Torture Claims Appeal Board

Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1868/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 May 2025.

1. The Applicant is a 45-year-old national of Sri Lanka who last arrived in Hong Kong on 9 April 2006 as a visitor with permission to remain as such extended up to 25 June 2006 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police on almost a year later on 7 May 2007. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Sri Lanka he would be harmed or killed by certain local supporters of the poli

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