Read the full judgment text of HCAL 419/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 November 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 43-year-old national of Vietnam who together with his girlfriend entered Hong Kong illegally on 1 September 2019 and were arrested on 25 September 2019, and for which they were convicted and sentenced to prison for 15 months, during which they jointly raised a non-refoulement claim for protection to the Immigration Department on the basis that if they returned to Vietnam they would be harmed or killed by their respective creditors over their own unpaid debts.
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