Case Law

8 February 2008 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Jehovah's Witness - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Australia - Lebanon

7 February 2008 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Ahmadis - Constitutional law - Country of origin information (COI) - Effective protection - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Australia - Pakistan

Application for judicial review.

29 January 2008 | Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Magistrates Court | Topic(s): Baptist - Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Persecution based on political opinion - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: Australia - Georgia

28 November 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Federal Court | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Mental health - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to employment - Shia | Countries: Australia - Bahrain

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.

9 November 2007 | Judicial Body: Lithuania: Supreme Administrative Court (Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas) | Countries: Egypt - Lithuania

On Petition for review of an Order by the Board of Immigration Appeals.

1 November 2007 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Non-state agents of persecution - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Sunni | Countries: Pakistan - United States of America

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

26 July 2007 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Topic(s): Freedom of assembly and association - Freedom of religion - Religious discrimination | Countries: Russian Federation

9 July 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Jehovah's Witness - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Australia - Lebanon

25 May 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Jehovah's Witness - Persecution based on political opinion - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to employment - State protection | Countries: Australia - Lebanon

15 May 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Christian - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Messianic Jews - Non-state agents of persecution - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to employment - State protection - Statelessness - Withdrawal of nationality | Countries: Israel - New Zealand