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• The case of M.B.K. and others against France (application no. 50082/19) concerns a Guinean couple with two minor children, who entered France in November 2017 to apply for international protection. In the light of Article 3 ECHR, the applicants complain that their care was abruptly withdrawn, which led them to end up on the streets, with their children.

On 10 December 2020, the ECtHR published its judgment Shiksaitov v. Russia. 
 

On 7 December 2020, the Belgian Council of State ordered the suspension of the execution of an act of the Commissioner-General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) concerning the use of videoconference facilities in asylum interviews.

M.A.M. v. Switzerland (application no. 29836/20) concerns the case of a Pakistani national who converted from Islam to Christianity following his arrival in Switzerland, where he had seen his asylum application rejected. Upon appeal, the Swiss Federal Administrative Tribunal considered that there was no reason to believe that he would be persecuted in Pakistan because of his new religion.