A mainlander who claimed his Hong Kong identity card was wrongly taken away has gone into hiding and refused to leave after he was refused a judicial review to extend his two-way permit yesterday.
Cheung Shun-kwong, 41, obtained an identity card with a one-way permit which the Immigration Department said was fake.
The department confiscated Mr Cheung's identity card on his re-entry from the mainland on May 17, 1998. He said he obtained the card after a one-way permit was given to him by Zhaoqing Public Security Department in November 1997.
He was visiting his chronically ill mother in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, before immigration officers at the Lowu checkpoint questioned him and took his ID card away.
Following his return to the mainland after losing the right of abode, Mr Cheung arrived last month on a two-way permit which expired yesterday.
He applied for a judicial review to extend his stay but this was rejected.
