Read the full judgment text of HCAL 848/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 October 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 43-year-old national of Vietnam who entered Hong Kong illegally in late November 2019 and was arrested by police on 5 March 2020 for various offences including possession of dangerous drugs and theft, and while being detained pending trial he raised a non-refoulement claim for protection to the Immigration Department on the basis that if he returned to Vietnam he would be harmed or killed by his creditor over his unpaid debts.
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