On 14 January 2021, the CJEU published its judgment in TQ v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (State Secretary for Justice and Security) (C-441/19) concerning the interpretation of, inter alia, Article 6(1) and Article 8(1) of the Return Directive (
On 12 January 2021, the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland ruled in case KHO: 2021: 6 that mere suspicion or speculation is not sufficient to exceed the evidence threshold for the application of exclusion clauses in relation to membership of terrorist organisation.
On 12 January 2021, the ECtHR published separate judgments in Munir Johanna v Denmark (application no. 56803/18) and Khan v Denmark (application no. 26957/19).
Two cases were communicated by the ECtHR against France. A.M. and others v France (application no. 7534/20) concerns the placement in administrative detention of a mother and her three minor children, aged thirteen years, six years and eight months.
S.Y. v Switzerland (application No. 57303/18) concerns an Eritrean national who entered Switzerland with her partner and their two children and was granted refugee status in 2010.
The case of N.M. against Belgium (application no. 43966/19) concerns an Algerian national, who fled his country of origin after having spent time in prison and suffering torture. In Belgium, he applied for international protection on several occasions, and was eventually convicted, inter alia, for his participation in the activities of a terrorist group.
On 17 December 2020, the Grand Chamber of the CJEU ruled in case C-808/18, Commission v. Hungary, that Hungary had failed to fulfil its obligations under EU law.
