Adjudication of asylum claims (refugee status determination / asylum procedures) / Rejected asylum-seekers

The applicant complained that the Slovakian authorities, having arrested him after he had crossed from Ukraine, had failed to inform him of the reasons for his arrest, in violation of Article 5 § 2 of the Convention. They had then returned him to Ukraine, where he had been detained in inadequate conditions in disregard of his alleged status as a minor, in breach of Article 3. He had been unable to participate effectively in the proceedings concerning his detention, and had eventually been returned to Afghanistan in the absence of an adequate assessment of the risks he had faced there, in breach of Article 3, Article 5 §§ 1, 2 and 4, and Article 13 of the Convention. Lastly, he alleged, under Article 34, that an NGO representative had been denied access to him in Ukraine, preventing him from lodging an application for an interim measure with the Court.

11 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): Children's rights - Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Immigration Detention - Legal representation / Legal aid - Rejected asylum-seekers | Countries: Afghanistan - Slovakia - Ukraine

21 August 2015 | Publisher: France: Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA) | Document type: Country Reports

28 February 2014 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Hazara - Housing, land and property rights (HLP) - Persecution based on political opinion - Persons not in need of international protection - Rejected asylum-seekers - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Shia | Countries: Afghanistan - Australia

16 August 2011 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Query Responses

Application for judicial review.

2 March 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Session (Scotland) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Complementary forms of protection - Fresh / New claim - Rejected asylum-seekers - Right to family life | Countries: Afghanistan - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

March 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers