Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1730/2023 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 November 2025.
1. The Applicant is a 32-year-old national of Thailand who arrived in Hong Kong on 28 February 2020 as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 29 March 2020 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police on 9 September 2021 for which he was subsequently convicted and sentenced to prison for 2 weeks. After his discharge from prison and was referred to the Immigration Department for deportation, he raised a non-refoulement claim for protection on the basis that
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