1. La requête concerne le possible renvoi au Pakistan du requérant, ressortissant de ce pays, s’étant converti de l’islam au christianisme en Suisse, suite au rejet de sa demande d’asile. Le requérant se plaint que son renvoi lui ferait courir un risque réel pour sa vie ou d’être soumis à des mauvais traitements et que sa liberté de religion serait considérablement entravée.
The Court considered that criminalisation of homosexual acts was not sufficient to render return
contrary to the Convention. The Court found, however, that the Swiss authorities had failed to
adequately assess the risk of ill-treatment for the first applicant as a homosexual person in the
Gambia and the availability of State protection against ill-treatment from non-State actors. Several
independent authorities noted that the Gambian authorities were unwilling to provide protection
for LGBTI people.
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.