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Country of Decision: Denmark
Country of Applicant: Jordan
Keywords: Best interest of the child, Child Specific Considerations, Gender Based Persecution, Internal protection, Non-state actors/agents of persecution
The applicant, a Jordanian citizen feared that her eldest daughter who was 17 years old would be forced by the applicant’s in-laws to marry a cousin. The Refugee Appeals Board noted that the daughter had an asylum motive of her own and according to Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child she had a right to be heard. To ensure a two-tier hearing and adjudication the Board remitted the case to the Danish Immigration Service.
Date: 27-06-2017
Country of Applicant: Afghanistan, Jordan
Keywords: Effective remedy (right to), Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Procedural guarantees, Refugee Status, Return
The case concerns a recognised as a refugee in the United Kingdom, who was to be deported in the interests of national security to Jordan. The UK Government obtained assurances from Jordan that he would not be subjected to ill-treatment and would be tried fairly by the Jordanian State Security Court. However the applicant alleged that, if deported to Jordan, he would be at real risk of ill-treatment and an unfair trial.
Date: 09-05-2012
Country of Applicant: Algeria, France, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia
Keywords: Country of origin, Detention, Effective remedy (right to), Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Real risk, Refugee Status, Return, Safe country of origin, Terrorism
The European Court of Human Rights found a violation of Article 5 para 1 (f), 4 and 5 with regards to some of the eleven applicants in this case, who were detained as suspected terrorists by UK authorities.
Date: 19-02-2009
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Country of Applicant: Algeria, Jordan
Keywords: Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN, Exclusion from protection, Torture
The House of Lords considered a number of issues arising out of the proposed deportation of three foreign nationals on the basis that each was a danger to the national security of the United Kingdom. The Court made three particularly relevant findings: (1) that Article 1F(c) of the 1951 Refugee Convention could be invoked to exclude an individual from the provisions of the Convention on the basis of acts committed after the applicant was recognised as a refugee; (2) Diplomatic assurances as to the treatment of an individual were relevant to assessing how an applicant would be treated upon...
Date: 18-02-2009
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