On 19 October 2020, the Court of The Hague ruled that the State Secretary for Justice and Security had insufficiently motivated the inadmissibility of the applications of four Syrian nationals, who had made an asylum application in the Netherlands while already enjoying refugee status in Bulgaria.
A.B v Russia (application no. 34804/17) concerns the applicant’s pending extradition to Turkmenistan where, it is submitted, he faces a real risk of ill treatment in breach of Article 3 ECHR. Therefore, the Court asks whether the applicant faces the risk of being subjected to treatment in breach of Article 3 if extradited to his country of origin, in light of the general situation in Turkmenistan and the personal circumstances of the applicant.
On 13 October 2020, the Supreme Court of Ireland handed down a judgment concerning the question whether the Minister for Justice and Equality is obliged to revoke a deportation order or otherwise facilitate a person to enter the State, when that person has been granted consent to make a subsequent application for international protection under section 22 of the
On 9 October 2020, the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) published its judgment in the case of AA (Nigeria) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1296 concerning an appeal against a deportation that would be unduly harsh on the appellant’s partner and children.
The communicated case of AMA v. the Netherlands (application no. 23048/19) concerns a Bahraini national whose applications for asylum in the Netherlands, based on being a member of a group that is systematically exposed to ill-treatment, were rejected. Upon return, he was arrested, put on trial for allegedly false charges and, ultimately, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
