The detention of a Filipina arrested in Central last September for overstaying her visa for 27 years, was extended today after her duty lawyer sought another adjournment of the case to await the result of her request for asylum as a torture claimant.
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| How? Pindutin dito |
Since she has not applied for bail, she was returned to jail
to await the next hearing on Feb. 14.
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| PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE |
Rescate is facing a charge of breach of condition of stay, in
violation of the Immigration Ordinance, for overstaying her visa since Sept.
29, 1996, after she was terminated from her work as a domestic helper.
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| DETALYE |
She managed to remain underground until her arrest on Sept.
7, 2023 on the footbridge near Exit A of the Central MTR station.
She has since been detained after the court rejected her
application for bail.
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| PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE |
Another former domestic helper, Teodora Quijano, 33 years
old, remained free when she was allowed by Magistrate Chui yesterday (Dec. 18) to
post bail of $5,000 in a separate case of overstaying for one and a half years.
Quijano was charged with breach of condition of stay after
she was arrested by police in a room in Ming Court Guest House in Wan Chai, last
Sept. 3.
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| Pindutin para sa detalye |
She was supposed to leave Hong Kong until May 29, 2022, or
two weeks after she was terminated as a domestic helper on May 15, 2022, but
stayed on until her arrest.
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