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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
UNHCR-Stellungnahme Zur Parlamentarischen Initiative 17.423: Mitwirkungspflicht im Asylverfahren. Über-prüfungsmöglichkeit bei Mobiltelefonen. Vorentwurf und erläuternder Bericht der Staatspolitischen Kommission des Nationalrates vom 14. Februar 2020 June 2020 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Policy/Position Papers
Switzerland: Judgement FAC D-2186_2020 of 4 May 2020[1537] The legal representative of the asylum seeker from Afghanistan refused to participate in the « Dublin » hearing due to Covid-19. The hearing had been conducted without any legal representative and the SEM decided on the asylum seeker’s transfer to Germany. The FAC concludes that the absence of a legal representative was due to justifiable good cause. Thus, the hearing has no effect. 4 May 2020 \| Judicial Body: Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): COVID-19 - Legal representation / Legal aid - Refugee / Asylum law \| Countries: Afghanistan - Switzerland
Switzerland: Judgement FAC F-1389_2019 of 20 April 2020[1536] This decision was about an asylum seeker who was allocated to a specific centre for a period of 14 days on account of his disruptive behaviour at the federal centre for asylum seekers where he was residing. He complained about this allocation and the arrangements it entailed. This restriction was justified by the disruptive behaviour of the person in question and proportionate. The appellant had a certain degree of freedom of movement during his allocation to the specific centre and could leave it outside of curfew hours. 20 April 2020 \| Judicial Body: Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral \| Document type: Case Law \| Countries: Switzerland
Arrêt F-7195/2018 du 11 février 2020 On 11 February 2020, the Swiss Federal Administrative Tribunal (TAF) ruled in case F-7195/2018 concerning the Dublin transfer of an asylum seeker to Bulgaria that there are no systemic flaws in the asylum procedure and in the reception conditions for applicants in Bulgaria, and that there is no reason for a complete suspension of Dublin transfers to Bulgaria. The court ruled that the Swiss asylum authority SEM should assess on a case-to-case basis whether a Dublin transfer must be suspended. This examination could include obtaining concrete and prior guarantees from the Bulgarian authorities. A transfer is only possible if the possibility that the asylum-seeker concerned would be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment on his return to Bulgaria is excluded. In this particular case, the appeal against the transfer decision was made by the applicant, arguing that she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder which could not be treated adequately in Bulgaria, that she risked not being able to access the regular reception services due to the fact that her asylum application had already been rejected by the Bulgarian authorities, that she even risked being detained and subjected to inhuman conditions and that she finally risked being returned to her country of origin contrary to the principle of non-refoulement. Taking her particular circumstances into account, the TAF quashed the transfer decision and upheld the appeal, ruling that even though there are no systemic deficiencies in the asylum system in Bulgaria, the transfer decision should be based on a detailed analysis of all relevant circumstances of the asylum seeker. 11 February 2020 \| Judicial Body: Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Reception - Rejected asylum-seekers \| Countries: Bulgaria - Sri Lanka - Switzerland
Switzerland: Judgement FAC E6310_2017 of 15 January 2020[1534] Removal to Puntland, Somalia, is reasonable, thus the enforcement of removal is deemed reasonable in favorable circumstances. 15 January 2020 \| Judicial Body: Switzerland: Tribunal administratif fédéral \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Return conditions - Security situation \| Countries: Somalia - Switzerland
Flor Agustina Calfunao Paillalef c. Suisse Risque de torture ou de peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants en cas d’expulsion (non-refoulement) 2 January 2020 \| Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Indigenous persons - Minorities - Non-refoulement \| Countries: Chile - Switzerland
A.A. v. Switzerland The case concerned the removal from Switzerland to Afghanistan of an Afghan national of Hazara ethnicity who was a Muslim convert to Christianity. The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there would be: a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the event of the applicant’s return to Afghanistan. 5 November 2019 \| 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): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Refugee / Asylum law - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) \| Countries: Afghanistan - Switzerland
UNHCR-Stellungnahme zu den Änderungen des Bundesgesetzes über die Ausländerinnen und Ausländer und über die Integration (AIG) Einschränkungen für Reisen ins Ausland und Anpassungen des Status der vorläufigen Aufnahme November 2019 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Comments on National Legislation

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