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Malta: Court of Criminal Appeal overturns decision of Magistrates Court in sea rescue case

Date: 
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

On 7 January 2020, the Court of Criminal Appeal published its judgment in Police vs Claus-Peter Reisch (Appeal No. 150/2019).

N.M. v Russia: Extradition to Uzbekistan on charges of religious crimes amounts to violation of Art 3 ECHR

Date: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

On 3 December 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) published its judgment on the risk of ill treatment in the event of extradition to Uzbekistan.

Ilias and Ahmed v Hungary: Violation of Article 3 due to failure to assess risks upon return but no violation of Article 3 with regard to the conditions in the Röszke border transit zone

Date: 
Thursday, November 21, 2019

 

On 21 November 2019, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (GC) delivered its judgment on the detention in the Röszke transit zone and their subsequent removal to Serbia.

Slovenia: Constitutional court annuls provision on suspension of asylum procedure*

Date: 
Monday, October 14, 2019

On 14 October 2019, the Slovenian Constitutional Court published its judgment finding that Article 10b of the Aliens Act, setting out measures of temporary suspension of the right to asylum, was contrary to the principle of non-refoulement.

Switzerland: Suspension of Dublin transfer to Croatia due to summary returns at border with Bosnia-Herzegovina

Date: 
Friday, July 12, 2019

On 12 July 2019, the Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland ruled to suspend the transfer of an asylum applicant to Croatia under the Dublin Regulation 604/2013 (the Dublin Regulation) due to the current situation of summary returns at the Croatian border with Bosnia-Herzegovina (E-3078/2019, 12 July 2019).

ECtHR - Communicated Cases against Romania, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Sweden and Azerbaijan

Date: 
Friday, August 31, 2018

The European Court of Human Rights has recently communicated several asylum-related cases:

Luxembourg – Administrative Tribunal stops Dublin transfer of asylum seeker to Italy, due to country’s systemic deficiencies

Date: 
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

On July 10, the Administrative Tribunal of Luxembourg ruled in case 41401/18 concerning a Guinean asylum seeker, who arrived to Luxembourg through Italy. A few months after applying for asylum, he was informed that he would be transferred to Italy, due to his fingerprints being first registered there.

CJEU Judgment: Case C-181/16 Gnandi, 19 June 2018

Date: 
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

On 19 June 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in case C-181/16 Gnandi, which concerns a request

Switzerland: Federal Administrative Tribunal rules decision not to examine merits of asylum claim lacked sufficient examination of safe third country criteria

Date: 
Thursday, February 8, 2018

On 8 February 2018, the Swiss Federal Administrative Tribunal ruled in case D-635/2018, which concerned a Turkish journalist of Kurdish ethnicity who lodged an application for international protection in Zurich after arriving from Brazil. She claimed that she had been arrested and convicted in Turkey due to her profession and alleged connection with a terrorist organisation.

CJEU: AG Opinion in cases C-175/17 X and C-180/17 X and Y, 24 January 2018

Date: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

On 25 January 2018, Advocate General Bot published his opinion in cases C-175/17 X and 

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