Case Law

22 July 2022 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Legal Instrument: 1984 Convention against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription | Countries: Eritrea - Switzerland

Risque pour la vie et risque de torture ou de mauvais traitements en cas d’expulsion vers le pays d’origine

22 July 2021 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Convention against Torture (CAT) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment | Countries: Eritrea - Switzerland

the State party has an obligation to refrain from forcibly returning the complainant to Italy and to continue complying with its obligation to provide the complainant, in full consideration with him, with rehabilitation through medical treatment.

3 August 2018 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Legal Instrument: 1984 Convention against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment | Countries: Eritrea - Italy - Switzerland

20 June 2017 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Legal Instrument: 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Expulsion - Forced labour - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment | Countries: Eritrea - Switzerland

See further Committee of Minister (CM) decisions of September 2016 and June 2017 available at: http://hudoc.exec.coe.int/eng?i=CM/Del/Dec(2016)1265/H46-16 ; http://hudoc.exec.coe.int/eng?i=CM/Del/Dec(2017)1288/H46-17E) and Italian authorities submission of Sept. 2017 ( available at: http://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=090000168075968c); the Communication by Italian Government Action plan (https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=090000168091f978 ); and the decision by the Committee of Ministers of 5 March 2020 (available at: https://search.coe.int/cm/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectID=09000016809cc879)

21 October 2014 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Topic(s): Access to procedures - Effective remedy - Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-refoulement - Refoulement - Rescue at sea / Interception at sea | Countries: Afghanistan - Eritrea - Greece - Italy - Sudan

19 June 2014 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) | Countries: Eritrea - United States of America

19 February 2014 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Human rights law - Regional instruments - Safe third country | Countries: Eritrea - Italy - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

18 April 2013 | Judicial Body: Israel: Supreme Court | Countries: Eritrea - Israel

17 October 2012 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Human rights law - Regional instruments - Safe third country | Countries: Eritrea - Italy - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

18 March 2010 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Eritrea - United States of America