EDAL case summaries
Country of Decision: France
Country of Applicant: Afghanistan
Keywords: Assessment of facts and circumstances, Country of origin information, Effective access to procedures, Indiscriminate violence, Internal armed conflict, Responsibility for examining application, Well-founded fear
Article 3 of the ECHR imposes an absolute obligation on contracting States not to deport an asylum seeker where doing so would expose him or her to a genuine and serious risk of violence. Under the discretionary clause in Article 17(1) of the Dublin III Regulation, this remains the case where the application does not fall within the immediate responsibilities of that State.
Date: 03-04-2017
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