Case Law

Case Law includes national and international jurisprudential decisions. Administrative bodies and tribunals are included.

1951 Refugee Convention 1
Abduction 1
Access to procedures 4
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 2
Acts of persecution 2
Administrative courts 2
Administrative law 2
Ahwazi 1
Airports 2
Anti-terrorism law 2
Appeal / Right to appeal 18
Arbitrary arrest and detention 59
Armed forces / Military 4
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 6
Armenian 1
Arrival 1
Assyrians 1
Asylum policy 4
Asylum-seekers 14
Azeri 1
Baha'i 4
Bail 1
Benefit of the doubt 2
Birth Certificates 1
Burden of proof 5
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 6
Catholic 2
Cessation clauses 11
Changes of circumstances in home country 6
Children's rights 6
Children-at-risk 2
Christian 60
Citizenship / Nationality law 1
Combatants / Former combatants 1
Complementary forms of protection 8
Constitutional law 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
Convention refugee 4
Country of origin information (COI) 77
Credibility assessment 81
Crime prevention 1
Crimes against humanity 7
Criminal justice 23
Death penalty 8
Decision on admissibility 5
Denial of refugee status 31
Deportation / Forcible return 109
Derivative status 3
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 5
Domestic violence 10
Drug trafficking 3
EU Qualification Directive 2
Effective protection 2
Effective remedy 17
Elections 11
Evangelical 4
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 76
Exclusion clauses 15
Exhaustion of domestic remedies 4
Expulsion 27
Extradition 1
Extrajudicial executions 1
False documents 3
Family reunification 3
Forced marriage 2
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 77
Freedom of assembly and association 1
Freedom of expression 12
Freedom of religion 3
Freedom of speech 8
Fresh / New claim 9
Gender discrimination 4
Gender-based persecution 8
Grounds for persecution 2
Hazara 2
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
Human rights activists 2
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
Illegal entry 12
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 5
Immigrants 1
Immigration Detention 32
Immigration law 2
Inclusion clauses 1
Independence of judiciary 1
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 8
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 3
International armed conflict 2
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
International protection 2
Involuntary repatriation 1
Iranians 1
Jurisdiction 3
Kurd 19
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
Laws relating to religion 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 7
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 23
Mandate status 8
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
Mental health 10
Military law 2
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 14
Mormon 2
Muslim 2
National security / Public order 2
Non-refoulement 23
Non-state agents of persecution 14
Opposition 7
Passports 25
Pentecostal 1
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on political opinion 144
Persecution of family members 18
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 18
Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
Political asylum 4
Political groups 4
Political parties 4
Political situation 1
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 6
Pre-trial detention 1
Prison or detention conditions 14
Proof of nationality 1
Prosecution vs persecution 18
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
Protestant 1
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
Public health 2
Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
Re-entry 4
Readmission 1
Reception 6
Refoulement 28
Refugee / Asylum law 2
Refugee seamen 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 18
Refugees 20
Refugees sur place 1
Regional instruments 9
Rejected asylum-seekers 15
Religious discrimination 3
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 81
Resettlement 3
Residence permits / Residency 6
Returnees 3
Right to education 4
Right to employment 2
Right to family life 14
Right to health 2
Right to justice 6
Right to liberty and security 15
Right to life 8
Right to seek asylum 1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 16
Sabean Mandean 1
Safe country of origin 2
Safe third country 12
Secondary movement 1
Security forces 1
Security situation 2
Serious non-political crime 1
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 8
Sharia law 2
Shia 2
Single procedure 5
Smuggling of persons 3
Social group persecution 44
Standard of proof 7
State protection 7
Statelessness 3
Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
Sunni 1
Sur place persecution 16
Tamil 1
Terrorism 13
Torture 1
Transgression of social / cultural norms 11
Travel documents 6
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 4
UNHCR mandate 9
Unaccompanied / Separated children 4
Unlawful departure 19
Visas 17
War crimes 2
Well-founded fear of persecution 21
Witnesses 9
Women's rights 1
Women-at-risk 10
Zoroastrian 4

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The head of the State Agency for Refugees v. Seifolah Mirfenderski The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund. 27 June 2011 \| Judicial Body: Bulgaria: Supreme Administrative Court \| Topic(s): Christian - Credibility assessment \| Countries: Bulgaria - Iran, Islamic Republic of
Pourjamaliaghdam v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 9 June 2011 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court \| Topic(s): Crimes against humanity - Exclusion clauses \| Countries: Canada - Iran, Islamic Republic of
AB (Iran) 7 April 2011 \| Judicial Body: New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Opposition - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand
I.A. v. Asylum and Immigration Tribunal On appeal from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal 1 April 2011 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) \| Topic(s): Mandate status - Refugees - UNHCR mandate \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
K. v. Federal Asylum Review Board The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund. 24 March 2011 \| Judicial Body: Austria: Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof) \| Topic(s): Assyrians - Christian - Complementary forms of protection - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) \| Countries: Austria - Iran, Islamic Republic of
Bostanabad v. the head of the State Agency for Refugees The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund. 18 March 2011 \| Judicial Body: Bulgaria: Supreme Administrative Court \| Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) \| Countries: Bulgaria - Iran, Islamic Republic of
K.M. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department Application for judicial review. 8 March 2011 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) \| Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Fresh / New claim - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
N. S. K. Syedabas v. the head of the State Agency for Refugees The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund. 7 March 2011 \| Judicial Body: Bulgaria: Supreme Administrative Court \| Topic(s): Acts of persecution - Prosecution vs persecution - Well-founded fear of persecution \| Countries: Bulgaria - Iran, Islamic Republic of
Moghaddas v. Turkey 15 February 2011 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Deportation / Forcible return - Immigration Detention - Non-refoulement - Refugees - Right to liberty and security \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - Türkiye
SA (Iranian Arabs - no general risk) Iran v. Secretary of State for the Home Department Heard at Field House on 27 July 2010. 7 February 2011 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) \| Topic(s): Ahwazi - Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Persecution based on political opinion - Racial / Ethnic persecution \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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