Read the full judgment text of HCAL 436/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 October 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 33-year-old national of Indonesia who arrived in Hong Kong on 25 February 2019 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 27 March 2019 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 16 April 2019 he surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim for protection on the basis that if he returned to Indonesia he would be harmed or killed by the captain of the ship in which he worked over their monetary dispute. He was subsequently