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ECtHR - Vilvarajah and others v. The United Kingdom, Application Nos. 13163/87, 13164/87, 13165/87, 13447/87, 13448/87, 30 October 1991

Country of Applicant: Sri Lanka
Keywords: Effective remedy (right to), Indiscriminate violence, Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Persecution (acts of), Persecution Grounds/Reasons, Return, Torture

The five applicants were asylum seekers from Sri Lanka of Tamil ethnicity whose requests were denied in the UK and had been returned to Sri Lanka. The Court rejected their allegations that a breach of Art. 3 due to risk of ill-treatment as well as of a breach of Art. 13 because of ineffective judicial remedy had been committed by the UK. 
Date: 30-10-1991

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