On 31 May 2019, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (the UNCRC) decided in two separate cases on age assessments conducted on unaccompanied children, A.L. (CRC/C/81/D/16/2017) and J.A.B.
On 27 May 2019, the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of Spain ruled on the extension of temporary residence permits issued to individuals on exceptional grounds for longer than one-year periods.
On 27 May 2019, the Administrative Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court ruled in a case concerning the re-examination of an international protection application in border procedures.
On May 23, 2019, the judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Trapani acquittedtwo individuals who were rescued by the tugboat Vos Thalassa, along with 65 others, in the Sicilian Channel in July 2018.
On 23 May 2019, the Court of Appeal of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) released a split decision stating that the Home Office policy on age assessments is unlawful in the case of B.F. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department.
On 21 May 2019, the Administrative Court of Sofia City granted the appeal of an asylum applicant of Iranian origin, who submitted an application on the grounds of religious persecution in Iran for her Christian beliefs.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has released its judgment in the case of O.O. v. Russia (App. No. 36321/16) concerning the extradition of an Uzbek national.
