Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 5 February 1997.
1. The thousands of people who have fled Vietnam since the fall of Saigon in 1975 have been called many things. They used to be called the boat people. For a while, they were simply called migrants. At present, the tendency is to call them asylum-seekers. But they are called that more in hope than in expectation. The vast majority of those who have fled to Hong Kong have not been granted refugee status. They are returned to Vietnam. Pending their removal from Hong Kong, they are held in detentio