Read the full judgment text of HCAL 420/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 November 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 35-year-old national of Vietnam who entered Hong Kong illegally on 14 July 2019 and was arrested on 23 September 2019 for undertaking unauthorized employment for which he was subsequently convicted and sentenced to prison for 15 months, during which 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 outstanding debts.
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