Case Law

Application for judicial review.

31 July 2009 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: High Court (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Prosecution vs persecution - Racial / Ethnic persecution | Countries: Rwanda - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Application for an order of certiorari to quash a decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal.

18 June 2009 | Judicial Body: Ireland: High Court | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Human rights activists - Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Ireland - Rwanda

Hearing date: 10 October 2007. On appeal from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (HX/19216/2004).

30 October 2007 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - SGBV - Tutsis | Countries: Rwanda - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Under section 101(a)(3) of the REAL ID Act of 2005, Div. B of Pub. L. No. 109-13, 119 Stat. 302, 303, in mixed motive asylum cases, an applicant must prove that race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion was or will be at least one central reason for the claimed persecution.

25 June 2007 | Judicial Body: United States Board of Immigration Appeals | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Grounds for persecution - Persecution based on nationality - Social group persecution | Countries: Rwanda - United States of America

7 December 2006 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Countries: Rwanda - Sweden

25 March 2004 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Well-founded fear of persecution - Women-at-risk | Countries: Rwanda - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland