EDAL case summaries
Country of Decision: Greece
Country of Applicant: Turkey
Keywords: Access to the labour market, Detention, Non-refoulement, Procedural guarantees, Protection, Real risk, Refugee Status, Revocation of protection status, Right to remain pending a decision (Suspensive effect), Well-founded fear
Application to give suspensive effect to a decision by the Minister for Public Order
This case concerned deportation of a recognized refugee (Articles 32 and 33 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees) after a conviction for a criminal offence under common law.
Immediate deportation would expose the applicant to the risk of suffering irreparable harm in the event that his application for annulment is successful. Because of the severity of that harm, moves to deport him must be given suspensive effect until there has been a final decision on his application...
Date: 15-09-2000
