On 11 June 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union published its judgment in Case C-448/19 referred by Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla-La Mancha (High Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain).
On 11 June 2020, the European Court of Human Rights published its judgment in M.S. v. Slovakia and Ukraine (Application No. 17189/11) concerning expulsion to Afghanistan and detention pending expulsion.
On 9 June 2020, the Supreme Administrative Court published its judgment (KHO: 2020: 67) on the deportation of an applicant, of Kurdish ethnicity, to Iraq.
On 5 June 2020, the Human Rights Council published the opinion adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) (No. 22/2020) at its 87th session on the alleged arbitrary detention of Saman Ahmed Hamad in a Hungarian transit zone.
On 5 June 2020, the Administrative Court of International Protection of Cyprus ruled on the application of Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee convention to a case of a stateless person of Palestinian origin.
L.A. and Others and A.A. v Greece (Application Nos. 12237/20 and 12736/20): The case concerns a mother, her two children, and an unaccompanied minor, all of Syrian nationality. They allege that they were returned from Greece to Turkey and obstructed from lodging an asylum request. They complain that the conditions leading up to their return were contrary to Articles 3 and 5 ECHR.
On 2 June 2020, the European Court of Human Rights published its judgment in S.A. v The Netherlands (Application No. 49773/15) concerning the risk of exposure to inhuman and degrading treatment in the event of an applicant’s removal to Sudan.
S.B. and Others v Croatia (Application No. 18810/19): The applicants are Syrian nationals who currently reside in Germany and The Netherlands. In October 2018, they claim to have entered Croatia from Bosnia and Herzegovina on different occasions with groups of other persons.
On 28 May 2020, Advocate General Sharpston published her opinion in Case C-238/19 on the interpretation of the Qualification Directive and conscientious objection from military service as a ground of persecution.
On 28 May 2020, the Human Rights Committee published its views (CCPR/C/128/D/3300/2019) on the forced return of the author to Nigeria and the risk of treatment contrary to Article 7 ICCPR due to the author’s sexual orientation.
