//Since arriving in Hong Kong as a 12-year-old unaccompanied refugee in 1991, Vo has spent his life behind barbed wire and then bars.
He was first housed in a notoriously violent refugee camp where tens of thousands of Vietnamese were placed, often for years, until their cases were decided -- most with eventual asylum in other countries.
But Vo soon ended up in prison -- for 22 years -- after he was convicted as a teenager of murdering a fellow camp inmate during an argument.
Since completing his jail term four years ago he has been held at an immigration centre pending deportation, a move he is fighting in the courts.
"If they send me back to Vietnam I would rather be locked up here for the rest of my life," he told AFP behind a plexiglass barrier separating inmates and visitors.//
