Dear Mr Liu,
I refer to your email of 23 February 2022 requesting for information on the
number of appeals/petitions ("appeals") handled by the Torture Claims Appeal
Board/Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Our reply is given as follows –
(1) Number of appeals received: 725
(2) Number of appeals determined: 309
(3) Number of appeals withdrawn: 28
(4 & 5) Breakdown by nationality of the number of appeals allowed –
Nationality
No. of appeals allowed
Somali
1
Yemeni
1
Congolese
1
Bangladesh
1
Colombian
1
Total
5
(6) Breakdown by nationality of the number of appeals pending determination
as at 31 December 2021:
No. of appeals
Nationality
pending
determination
Afghanistani
2
Bangladeshi
185
Bangladesh/Indonesian
1
Brazilian
1
Burundian
1
Burundian/Rwandan
1
Cameroonian
1
Colombian
5
Congolese
6
Cote d' Ivoire
2
Dutch
1
Egyptian
11
Eritrean
1
Filipino
265
Gambian
8
No. of appeals
Nationality
pending
determination
Georgian
1
Ghanaian
7
Guinean
1
Indian
210
Indian/Filipino
1
Indonesian
499
Indonesian/Gambian
1
Israeli
1
Jordanian
1
Kazakhstani
1
Kenyan
17
Liberian/Guinean
1
Madagascar
1
Malagasy
2
Malaysian
2
Malian/Nigerian
1
Mexican
1
Mongolian
4
Moroccan
5
Nepalese
12
Nigerian
30
Pakistani
264
Pakistani/Indonesian
2
Peruvian
1
Russian
5
Rwandan
7
Senegalese
2
Sierra Leonean/Nigerian
1
Somali
5
Somali/Tanzanian
2
South African
2
South Korean
2
No. of appeals
Nationality
pending
determination
Sri Lankan
44
Tanzanian
10
Thailand
45
Togolese
4
Turkish
2
Ugandan
13
United States of
1
America/Britain
Uzbek
2
Venezuelan
3
Vietnamese
583
Yemeni
6
Zimbabwean
10
Total
2 306
Regards,
Security Bureau