Belgium: Council of Aliens Law Litigation suspend transfer to Iraq

Date: 
Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Court of Alien Law Litigation (CALL) referred a case back to the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRA) on 30 April 2015 after the CGRA had doubted the credibility of the applicant’s account of why he had fled Iraq, and if a well-founded fear of persecution existed. However, having been presented with new evidence in the applicant’s appeal that included an updated country of origin report on the security situation in Iraq, the CALL said that the applicant could not be returned to Iraq if it could not be guaranteed that he could return to safe regions of the country securely and legally, and not through regions where he would have a well-founded fear of persecution. 
 
The ELENA Weekly Legal Update would like to thank Sylvie Micholt for notifying us of this decision.


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Keywords: 
Actor of persecution or serious harm
Country of origin information
Persecution (acts of)
Religion
Well-founded fear