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AFFAIRE M.R. c. SUISSE (Requête no 6040/17) no violation of article 2 or 3 ECHR 16 June 2020 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) \| Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Rejected asylum-seekers \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - Switzerland
Switzerland: Judgement FAC E-6713_2019 of 9 June 2020[1538] The judgment deals with the question of when asylum applications must be referred to the extended procedure due to their complexity instead of being decided under the accelerated procedure. 9 June 2020 \| Judicial Body: Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - Switzerland
PS (Christianity - risk) Iran CG [2020] UKUT 00046 (IAC) 1. This country guidance applies to protection claims from Iranians who claim to have converted from Islam to Christianity. 2. Insofar as they relate to non-ethnic Christians, this decision replaces the country guidance decisions in FS and Others (Iran – Christian Converts) Iran CG [2004] UKIAT 00303 and SZ and JM (Christians – FS confirmed) Iran CG [2008] UKAIT 00082 which are no longer to be followed. 20 February 2020 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Christian - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Returnees \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
E3369/2019 The Federal Administrative Court (FAC) failed to provide the necessary justification for a finding about the supposed availability of an IFA in Mazar-e Sharif, despite the EASO Country-Guidance on Afghanistan (2018) and respective findings regarding the situation of Afghans who were born in Iran and/or who lived there for a long time. 12 December 2019 \| Judicial Body: Austria: Constitutional Court of Austria (Verfassungsgerichtshof) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) \| Countries: Afghanistan - Austria - Iran, Islamic Republic of
Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2019 8 March 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Thematic Reports
Supreme Administrative Court decision of 7 February 2019 - KHO:2019:22 7 February 2019 \| Judicial Body: Finland: Supreme Administrative Court \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country - Mental health - Security situation \| Countries: Afghanistan - Finland - Iran, Islamic Republic of
HB (Kurds) Iran CG [2018] UKUT 00430 (IAC) “whether a failed asylum seeker of Kurdish ethnicity will be at risk of persecution on return” 14 December 2018 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Kurd - Returnees \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ra 2018/18/0533 The applicant is an Afghan national and member of the ethnic group of Hazaras who was born and raised in Iran. He lodged an application for international protection in Austria in July 2015 which was rejected in first instance in September 2017.The Federal Administrative Court dismissed his appeal on 03/09/2018, arguing that even though the applicant cannot return to Sar-e Pol (where his family was originally from), there was an IFA available in Kabul or Mazar-e Sharif. It elaborated that the applicant had already gathered professional experience, had grown up in an Afghan family and was native speaker of one of the official languages and concluded that the applicant was familiar with the cultural circumstances in Afghanistan. The Austrian Supreme Administrative Court annulled this decision. It stated that the Federal Administrative Court's conclusion that the applicant was familiar with the cultural circumstances in Afghanistan was not evidence-based and emphasized that that the applicant had explicitly contested this. Furthermore the Supreme Administrative Court criticized that the Federal Administrative Court did not take into account and analyse the UNHCR-Afghanistan guidelines. A respective obligation derives from the respective Austrian case law as well as from European Union Law. The Court emphasized that according to UNHCR there was in general no IFA available in Kabul and that the availability of an IFA in other cities was questionable and needed to be assessed in a thorough manner on a case-to-case basis. 13 December 2018 \| Judicial Body: Austria: Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) \| Countries: Afghanistan - Austria - Iran, Islamic Republic of
Iran holds Melbourne University academic on 'infiltration' charge 9 December 2018 \| Publisher: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty \| Document type: Country News
At least two police officers killed by suicide car bomb in southeast Iran 6 December 2018 \| Publisher: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty \| Document type: Country News

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