Read the full judgment text of HCAL 2062/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 8 January 2026.
1. The Applicant is a Sri Lankan national in his mid-40s who arrived in Hong Kong on 16 October 2004 under a false identity as a visitor with permission to remain as such up to 15 November 2004 when he did not depart and instead overstayed, and was arrested by police some 1 ½ years later on 24 May 2006. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a torture claim on the basis that if he returned to Sri Lanka he would be harmed or killed by some local gangster
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