Read the full judgment text of HCAL 13/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 August 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 40-year-old national of Pakistan, who entered Hong Kong illegally on 11 May 2007, and was arrested by police on 14 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 Pakistan he would be harmed or killed by people of the hostile ethnic group Sunni and/or local supporters of the Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (“Jamiat”) for being a Shi’a Muslim and for supporting a rival political party Anjuman
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