Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1711/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 October 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 39-year-old national of India who entered Hong Kong illegally in January 2019 and was arrested by police some 11 months later on 7 December 2019. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim for protection on the basis that if he returned to India he would be harmed or killed by 3 Sikhs in his home village for refusing to convert his religion into Sikhism.
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