ECtHR Communicated cases: Asady and Others v. Slovakia (no. 24917/15), 26 September 2016

Date: 
Monday, September 26, 2016

On 26 September 2016, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the case Asady and Others v. Slovakia (no. 24917/15), which relates to the collective expulsion of nineteen asylum seekers from Slovakia to Ukraine in November 2014.

The applicants submitted an application to the ECtHR complaining that their collective expulsion constituted a violation of Article 4 Protocol 4 ECHR because the authorities did not carry out an individual assessment and examination of their cases and also denied them access to the asylum procedure in Slovakia. In addition, the applicants argued that they had no effective remedy to challenge their expulsion in violation of Article 13 ECHR in conjunction with Article 4 Protocol 4 ECHR.


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Keywords: 
Effective access to procedures
Effective remedy (right to)
Individual assessment