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On 25 September, the 9^th Appeals Committee ruled in a case concerning a family of Syrian-Kurdish asylum seekers from Afrin. 

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.

On 14 March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights gave its judgment in case Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary (no. 47287/15). The case concerned two Bangladeshi nationals who transited through Greece, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia before reaching Hungary, where they immediately applied for asylum and were held in a transit zone for 23 days.

In a judgment of 3 June 2016, The Hague District Court ruled on the subject of a Dublin transfer to Lithuania.
 
The case relates to a national of Tajikistan, who arrived in the Netherlands through Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Lithuania. As the applicant’s Schengen visa had been issued by Lithuania, the State Secretary of Security and Justice submitted a take back request to the Lithuanian authorities, which was subsequently accepted.