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ECtHR - Trabelsi v. Belgium, (Application no. 140/10), 4 September 2014

Country of Applicant: Tunisia
Keywords: Detention, Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Non-refoulement, Refugee Status

The ECtHR has unanimously held that Belgium, in extraditing a Tunisian national to the US, where he was under prosecution on charges linked to Al-Qaeda, without any regard to the interim Rule 39 measure issued by the Court suspending the extradition, had violated both Article 3 and Article 34 (right to individual applications)of the ECHR.
Date: 04-09-2014

ECtHR- A. and others v. the United Kingdom, Application no. 3455/05, 19 February 2009

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

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