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D.S. v Russia (application no. 30943/20) concerns the pending extradition of the applicant, a Turkmen national, from Russia to Turkmenistan. The applicant, who fled Turkmenistan and obtained refugee status in the Republic of Armenia in 2019, was arrested in Crimea on 30 June 2020 by police officers who, after having verified his identity, found out that he was wanted by the authorities of Turkmenistan. The applicant was placed in extradition detention in Crimea.

On 19 November 2020, the CJEU delivered its preliminary ruling in the case of E.Z v Federal Republic of Germany (

The case of Asaad and others versus the Netherlands (application no. 31007/20) concerns a Syrian family of Palestinian origin, consisting of a single mother and two children aged thirteen and nine, whose asylum application was declared inadmissible in the Netherlands because they had been recognised as a refugee and were granted international protection in Greece.

On 30 October 2020, the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted its views, under Article 10(5) of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), concerning the communication (