Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1268/2022 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 August 2025.
1. The Applicants, a mother and her 3 children, are all nationals of Egypt who arrived in Hong Kong on 8 December 2014 as visitors with permission to remain as such up to 8 March 2015 when they did not depart and instead overstayed, and on the following day of 9 March 2015 they surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non‑refoulement claim for protection on the basis that if they returned to Egypt they would be harmed or killed by Islamic extremist groups for their Coptic Christian
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