On 2 January 2020, the Committee Against Torture (the Committee) published its views in Flor Agustina Calfunao Paillalef v Swizterland, CAT/C/68/D/882/2018, concerning the risk of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment in the event of return to Chile.
E. H. v France (Application No. 39126/18): The case concerns a Moroccan national who was placed in a holding area at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in 2018. The applicant was later moved to an administrative detention centre and their request for international protection was rejected as manifestly unfounded. The applicant complains that his expulsion to Morocco exposed him to a risk of ill treatment contrary to Article 3 ECHR.
On 19 December 2019, the Swedish Migration Court of Appeal published its judgment (MIG 2019:26) on the possibility for the Migration Agency to refuse a minor the acquisition of the citizenship as part of their parent’s naturalization claim due to the child’s criminal record.
On 19 December 2019, the European Court of Human Rights published its decision to strike the case of M.A. v Estonia out of the list. The case concerned an Uzbekistan national’s deportation from Estonia to Russia which according to him would subject him to the risk of ill-treatment, contrary to Article 3 of the Convention, if Russia were to transfer him back to Uzbekistan.
The Federal Administrative Court recently referred a question to the Court of Justice of the European Union on the compatibility of German asylum law with Union law regarding protection of refugee families with different nationalities.
On 16 December 2019, the Court of the Hague published its decision to call upon the Court of Justice of the European Union to give a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Article 40 Directive 2013/32 in circumstances where the authenticity of
R.K. and 2 others v Russia (Application No. 41174/19): The applicants, all Syrian nationals failed to leave Russia upon the expiry of their visas and were detained by immigration authorities. They were subsequently issued with expulsion orders to Syria. Two applicants are detained pending expulsion. All of the applicants complain that their return to Syria would expose them to a real risk of death or ill treatment contrary to Articles 2 and 3 ECHR.
On 12 December 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union published its judgment in case C-519/18 on the interpretation of the right to family reunification guaranteed under Directive 2003/8
On 12 December 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) published its judgment in the joined cases C-381/18 and C-382/18 on the interpretation of Directive 2003/86 concerning th