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03/04/2025

EU: The CJEU ruled that Article 46(3) of the recast Asylum Procedures Directive, read in the light of Article 47 of the EU Charter and Article 4(3) of the TEU, must be interpreted as meaning that, in order to satisfy the requirement of a full and ex nunc examination, a national court of first instance hearing an action against a negative asylum decision must have the power to order a medical examination of the asylum applicant, where the court considers that the use of that examination is necessary or relevant for the purposes of assessing that application.

B.F., a Lebanese national, requested international protection in Cyprus on 4 September 2018. The applicant claimed that he had been the victim of torture by the Lebanese intelligence agencies and military services due to...

27/03/2025

EU: The CJEU ruled that Article 10(1)(d) of the recast Qualification Directive must be interpreted as meaning that an asylum applicant targeted by a blood feud in the country of origin for being a member of a family involved in a property dispute may not, for that sole reason, be regarded as belonging to a ‘particular social group’; however, national authorities must determine whether the applicant qualifies for subsidiary protection, as serious harm covers a real threat to the applicant of being killed or subjected to acts of violence inflicted by a member of his or her family or community.

A N, an Afghan national and an ethnic Pashtun from the Province of Laghman (Afghanistan), requested international protection in Austria on 4 November 2015, claiming that he was at risk...

06/03/2025

COE: The ECtHR found no violation of Sweden's positive obligations under Article 2 of the ECHR towards an Afghani asylum seeker with a worsening visual impairment and mental health problems who committed suicide two days after he received his negative asylum decision, due to lack of signs of mental distress or suicidal tendencies in the month preceding it and no immediate signs to render the attempt likely in the days prior.

An Afghan national and his brother arrived in Sweden as unaccompanied children and applied for asylum on 1 November 2015. The brother of the applicant in the proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), A.H., had a visual impairment since birth and mental health problems. The Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) assigned a...

23/10/2024

BE: The CALL allowed a subsequent application of an Afghan national who worked for the former government in opposition to the Taliban, granting him refugee status after an assessment of individual circumstances, cumulatively in view of documents submitted and country of origin information to conclude to the existence of a well-founded fear of persecution linked to his political beliefs.

An Afghan applicant requested international protection in Belgium on 7 May 2019 and the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) rejected his application on 29 November 2019. The CGRS stated that although the applicant's employment with the Afghan Ministry of...

20/03/2025

NL: The District Court of the Hague, seated in Amsterdam, submitted several questions to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling on the meaning, standards and conditions of specialised detention facilities as set out in the recast Reception Conditions Directive, with reference to the Schiphol Judicial Complex which is used for detention of applicants for asylum and for criminal detention at the same time.

On 24 November 2024, the Minister of Asylum and Migration (hereinafter “the Minister”), imposed the measure of deprivation of liberty on the applicant based on Article 6, third paragraph of the Aliens Act 2000. On 13 December 2024, the applicant lodged an appeal before the Court of the...

26/03/2025

NL: The Council of State ruled that the Netherlands may continue to transfer asylum applicants to Cyprus, as although Cyprus exceeds the maximum period for deciding on an asylum application, there are no structural shortcomings in the reception facilities in Cyprus that would amount to ill treatment and no evidence that asylum applicants transferred under the Dublin procedure are systematically placed in detention and would not have access to an effective remedy against a negative asylum decision.

A Somali national entered the European Union in Cyprus and subsequently applied for asylum in the Netherlands. Because under the Dublin III Regulation Cyprus was considered...