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2020 | Publisher: National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities | Document type: National Legislation

The Court found in particular that the Hungarian authorities had failed in their duty under Article 3 to assess the risks of the applicants not having proper access to asylum proceedings in Serbia or being subjected to chain-refoulement, which could have seen them being sent to Greece, where conditions in refugee camps had already been found to be in violation of Article 3. In a development of its case-law, it held that Article 5 was not applicable to the applicants’ case as there had been no de facto deprivation of liberty in the transit zone. Among other things, the Court found that the applicants had entered the transit zone of their own initiative and it had been possible in practice for them to return to Serbia, where they had not faced any danger to their life or health. Their fears of a lack of access to Serbia’s asylum system or of refoulement to Greece, as expressed under Article 3, had not been enough to make their stay in the transit zone involuntary.

21 November 2019 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Rejection at border - Right to liberty and security - Safe third country - Transit | Countries: Bangladesh - Greece - Hungary - North Macedonia - Serbia - Türkiye

1 September 2019 | Publisher: National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities | Document type: National Legislation

21 May 2019 | Publisher: National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities | Document type: National Legislation

21 May 2019 | Publisher: National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities | Document type: National Legislation

9 April 2019 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Comments on National Legislation

2019 | Publisher: National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities | Document type: National Legislation

2019 | Publisher: National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities | Document type: National Legislation

28 September 2018 | Publisher: National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities | Document type: National Legislation

1 September 2018 | Publisher: National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities | Document type: National Legislation