The national human rights commission had appealed to the court last month to halt the deportation, which it said would violate human rights. The 32-year-old ethnic Korean was invited to Korea by his mother last year and wished to apply for permanent residency. But he was ordered by the immigration office to leave after testing HIV-positive.

The man, from China’s Jilin province, filed a lawsuit against the order.

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