Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000287/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 1 May 1997.
1. The 14 Applicants are ethnic Chinese from Ha Tuyen Province in North Vietnam. They claim that in 1979 they were forcibly removed from their homes and confined in concentration areas reserved for ethnic Chinese. They allege that while in those areas their civil liberties were disregarded, they were subjected to harsh and arbitrary laws, and they were forced to live in conditions of isolation, poverty and squalor. Eventually, they managed to escape to Hong Kong. Once in Hong Kong, they applied