21 May 2019 | News
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has released its judgment in the case of O.O. v. Russia (App. No. 36321/16) concerning the extradition of an Uzbek national. The applicant arrived in Russia in June 2012. The following year, in June 2013, he was...
14 May 2019 | News
In April 2019, the UNHCR published its comments on the European Commission (EC) proposal for an Asylum Procedures Regulation. The agency welcomes the EC’s overall goal of harmonising protection standards and procedures and recognises the change from a...
14 May 2019 | News
On 14 May, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in the joint cases of M v. Ministry of Interior, Czech Republic (C-391/16) and X and X v. Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons, Belgium (C-77/17 and C/78/17). The first...
29 Apr 2019 | News
On 29 April, the Court ruled in the case of A.M. v. France (Application No. 9373/15), which concerned an Algerian national who was convicted by the Paris Criminal Court to six years in prison and a permanent exclusion order for participation in a terrorist network...
25 Apr 2019 | News
On 25 April 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) released a new judgment in the case of V.M. v. the United Kingdom (Application No. 62814/16). The case concerns a Nigerian national who was held in detention between 2009 and 2011 pending her removal from...
11 Apr 2019 | News
On 11 April, the ECtHR delivered its judgment in Sarwari and others v. Greece (38089/12) regarding the ill-treatment of ten Afghan nationals by Greek police. The case concerned the actions of two police officers in the search for an Afghan fugitive in 2004. In this...
