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Detention of an unaccompanied minor seeking asylum in an adult center in inhumane conditions. Violations of inhuman and degrading treatment and respect for the right to privacy

Article 3
25/07/2022 07:01

JUDGMENT Darboe and Camara v. Italy 21.07.2022 (app. no. 5797/17) see here SUMMARY In June 2016, the applicants arrived in Italy on makeshift vessels, and claimed asylum as alleged unaccompanied minors. The case concerned their placement in an adult migrant centre and the age-assessment procedure that ensued. In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case, the […]

Greece awards 330,000 euros to refugees for violation of the right to life and humiliating treatment! Death of 11 people from the sinking of a fishing boat and humiliating body control of survivors!

Article 2
08/07/2022 07:14

JUDGMENT Safi and other v. Greece 07.07.2022 (app. no. 5418/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the sinking on 20 January 2014 of a fishing boat transporting 27 foreign nationals in the Aegean Sea, off the island of Farmakonisi, resulting in the death of 11 people, including relatives of the applicants. The European Court of […]

Expulsion of foreign Muslims to their country. The ECtHR was not convinced that they were at risk of ill-treatment

Article 3
23/06/2022 06:39

JUDGMENT Μ.Ν. and others v. Turkey 21.06.2022 (app. no. 40462/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the risk of the applicants being expelled from Türkiye to Tajikistan on the grounds that they did not have valid visas and would pose a threat to public safety owing to their participation in Koranic study classes that had […]

Use of handcuffs and leash on asylum seeker amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment

Article 3
02/06/2022 18:26

JUDGMENT H.M. and others v. Hungary 02.06.2022 ( app. no. 38967/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an Iraqi family’s detention in a transit zone at the border between Hungary and Serbia after fleeing Iraq. The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman […]

Multiple violations of the ECHR due to the detention and deportation of Afghan asylum seekers but also due to the death of a minor from a passing train!

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14/05/2022 13:10

JUDGMENT M.H. and others v. Croatia 18.11.2021 (app. no. 15670/18 and 43115/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the death of a six-year-old Afghan child, MAD.H., who was hit by a train after allegedly having been denied the opportunity to seek asylum by the Croatian authorities and ordered to return to Serbia via the tracks. […]

Deportation of a Pakistani who embraced Christianity! Risk assessment for his life in Pakistan! Violation of the ECHR if deported

Article 2
26/04/2022 17:15

JUDGMENT M.A.M. v. Switzerland 26.04.2022 (app. no. 29836/20) see here SUMMARY The Court held, unanimously, that if the decision to expel the applicant to Pakistan were to be executed there would be a violation of Article 2 (right to life) and Article 3 (prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on […]

Deportation of Turkish nationals from Azerbaijan. They were extrajudicially deported. Violation of their personal freedom and degrading treatment

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10/03/2022 18:01

JUDGMENT Shenturk and others v. Azerbaijan 10.03.2022 (app. no. 41326/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the arrest, detention and expulsion of the applicants from Azerbaijan to Turkey. All four had worked in Azerbaijan as teachers in private schools associated with the Gülen movement. The Court found in particular that the removal of the applicants […]

Accused of smuggling immigrants did not have the opportunity to examine key witnesses in the trial against him. Violation of the right to examine witnesses

Article 6 - Par. 1
14/02/2022 19:27

JUDGMENT Al Alo v. Slovakia 10.02.2022 (app. no. 32084/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a Syrian national’s complaint that his trial and conviction on charges of migrant smuggling had been unfair. An important part of the evidence against him had come from the migrants he had aided, who had been questioned only at the […]

Prohibition of voting in local elections for internally displaced persons in Ukraine! Violation for discrimination because their special situation was not taken into account!

discriminations
23/10/2021 16:16

JUDGMENT Selygenenko and others v. Ukraine 21.10.2021 (app. no. 24919/16 and 28658/16) see here SUMMARY The applicants, who are all internally displaced persons who fled the conflict in Donetsk and the Crimea, came to Kyiv in 2014-15. The case concerned the alleged discriminatory denial of a vote to them in the Kyiv local elections in […]

Extension of interim measures for Afghans on the Polish-Belarusian border!

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05/10/2021 10:06

JUDGMENT R.A. and others v. Poland 27.09.2021 (app. no. 42120/21) see here SUMMARY Afghan nationals are being held for about seven weeks in a camp on the border between Belarus and Poland in poor health. The ECtHR notified the Polish Government of the application of R.A. etc. v. Poland (ref. no. 42120/21) and asked it […]

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