Case Law

30 June 2011 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Elections - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand

Heard at Field House Determination on 18 to 20 January 2011. The following Country Guidance cases on Ethiopia are superseded or replaced, as the case may be, by the present determination: GG (Return – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 05996; NB (Mixed Ethnicity – Ethiopian – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06526; AA (Children – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06533; TG (Mixed Ethnicity) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 07289; and DA (Ethnicity – Eritrean – Country Conditions) Ethiopia CG [2004] UKIAT 00046. 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.

30 June 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Denial of nationality - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Eritreans - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Returnees - Right to a nationality - Statelessness | Countries: Ethiopia

28 June 2011 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Persecution based on political opinion - Religious discrimination - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Shia | Countries: New Zealand - Saudi Arabia

28 June 2011 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Topic(s): Complementary forms of protection - Country of origin information (COI) - Deportation / Forcible return - EU Qualification Directive - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal armed conflict - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - International protection - Rejected asylum-seekers - Returnees - Security situation | Countries: Somalia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Field House on 7 December 2009 and 30 November 2010.

24 June 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity - SGBV - Sexual and reproductive rights - Social group persecution | Countries: Jamaica - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

23 June 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members | Countries: Australia - Iraq

22 June 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Corruption - Country of origin information (COI) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Australia - Philippines

17 June 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Persecution based on political opinion - Political parties - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Social group persecution - Sunni | Countries: Australia - Iraq

6 June 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Persecution based on political opinion - Political parties | Countries: Australia - India

3 June 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Effective protection - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - State protection | Countries: Australia - Georgia