Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000016/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 6 January 1997.
1. The Applicants come from Vietnam. There are 27 of them in all. They consist of four families. The heads of the families all claim to have served in, or in conjunction with, the U.S. Special Forces prior to North Vietnam's military victory over South Vietnam in 1975. As a result, they claim that they and their families were persecuted. Eventually, in 1991, they fled to Hong Kong. They applied for refugee status. They were all refused refugee status, and they have been detained since then pendi