Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1104/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 31 July 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 42-year-old national of Sri Lanka who entered Hong Kong illegally on 26 May 2006 and made a refugee application to the UNHCR, and after it was rejected, he then on 7 March 2007 raised a torture claim later taken as a non-refoulement claim for protection to the Immigration Department on the basis that if he returned to Sri Lanka he would be harmed or killed or persecuted by the Sri Lankan army and authorities and/or by the pro-government paramilitary group People’s Liberatio