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Country of Decision: Belgium
Country of Applicant: Morocco
Keywords: Assessment of facts and circumstances, Credibility assessment, Individual assessment, Membership of a particular social group, Sexual orientation
LGBT individuals who have left Morocco can be granted refugee status as the socially and legally hostile environment towards LGBT individuals in this country can justify fear of persecution based on their membership to a particular group. A cautious assessment of the consequences of a return to the country of origin and an extensive benefit of the doubt are advised in the review of asylum applications of Moroccan nationals identifying as LGBT.
Date: 24-04-2019
Country of Decision: Italy
Country of Applicant: Iraq
Keywords: Credibility assessment, Effective access to procedures, Effective remedy (right to), Inadmissible application
In the absence of EU rules concerning the procedural requirements with regard to the submission and examination of an application for international protection, Member States must determine those requirements provided that they do not render in practice impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of the right to seek asylum.
Date: 18-09-2018
Country of Decision: Austria
Country of Applicant: Afghanistan
Keywords: Child Specific Considerations, Credibility assessment, Individual assessment, Internal protection, Obligation to give reasons, Protection, Return, Safe country of origin, Serious harm, Subsidiary Protection, Vulnerable person
The judicial examination of whether subsidiary protection shall be approved requires a thorough assessment of the individual case. This applies in particular for especially vulnerable persons.
Date: 21-03-2018
Keywords: Assessment of facts and circumstances, Credibility assessment, Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports, Membership of a particular social group, Persecution Grounds/Reasons, Sexual orientation
National authorities can order experts’ reports with the purpose of assisting in the assessment of the facts and circumstances relating to a declared sexual orientation of an applicant, provided that the procedures for these reports are consistent with fundamental rights. However, the examining authority, courts or tribunal must not base their decision solely on the conclusions of an expert’s report and are not bound by these conclusions when assessing the applicant’s statements relating to his or her sexual orientation.
Moreover, national...
Date: 25-01-2018
Country of Applicant: Sierra Leone
Keywords: Credibility assessment, Discrimination, Individual assessment, Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manifestly unfounded application, Persecution Grounds/Reasons, Refugee Status, Safe country of origin, Sexual orientation
The applicant, a national from Sierra Leone who claimed asylum in Switzerland on the grounds of persecution owing to his homosexuality, is found not to be at risk of treatment prohibited under Article 3 of the Convention in case of return to his country of origin. In substance, the Court recalls that national authorities are in the best position to carry out this risk assessment and recalls the UNHCR Guiding Principles on asylum claims based on sexual orientation, which require the evaluation of the risk through individual assessment, in addition to the examination of the country’s...
Date: 18-01-2018
Country of Applicant: Iraq
Keywords: Child Specific Considerations, Credibility assessment, Detention, Effective remedy (right to), Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
The ECtHR reviewed if the detention of a family with three children in a border police’s detention facility would be considered as a breach of Article 3 ECHR.
Date: 07-12-2017
Country of Decision: Denmark
Country of Applicant: Somalia
Keywords: Assessment of facts and circumstances, Country of origin information, Credibility assessment, Relevant Facts, Revocation of protection status, Subsidiary Protection
The complainant is an ethnic Galadi and a Muslim from Afgoye, Somalia. On 6 April 2017, the Danish Immigration Service decided not to prolong the complainant’s subsidiary protection under the Danish Aliens Act Art. 11 (2), cf. Art. 19 (1) no. 1 and Art. 19 (7) cf. Art. 26 (1).
After an overall assessment of the country of origin information the Board found that a deportation of the complainant to Afgoye no longer constitutes a violation of Denmark’s international obligations including ECHR article 3. However, regarding the assessment under the Aliens Act article 26, the Board found...
Date: 01-12-2017
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Country of Applicant: Iran
Keywords: Credibility assessment, Religion
The court gave guidance on the application of a structured approach to credibility assessment.
Date: 22-11-2017
Country of Decision: Switzerland
Country of Applicant: Afghanistan
Keywords: Country of origin information, Credibility assessment, Internal protection, Personal circumstances of applicant
Kabul cannot be considered as a reasonable internal flight alternative for the complainant due to the lack of a sustainable social network for him there and no other particular factors which would enable the applicant's removal . Therefore the complainant does not meet the requirements for a removal to Afghanistan.
Date: 13-10-2017
Country of Decision: United Kingdom
Country of Applicant: Iran
Keywords: Country of origin information, Credibility assessment, Membership of a particular social group, Political Opinion, Religion, Well-founded fear
The appellant claimed that the Tribunals in their determinations had failed to give adequate reasons for their conclusions, in particular that the appellant had not demonstrated well-founded fear. The Court considered the grounds for this claim and found that since we should ‘avoid a requirement of perfection’ (para 26) they were not sufficient to establish that the tribunals had erred, nor that the claimant was at risk of persecution.
Date: 12-10-2017
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