The applicant, a national from Egypt, a country designated as safe by Decree-Law No 158 of 23 October 2024, requested asylum in Italy (Pozzallo) and had his application channeled to the accelerated procedure and was issued with a detention order pursuant to Article 6 bis of Legislative Decree No 142/2015 by the Quaestor of the Province of Ragusa.

The court examined whether, and to what extent, Decree-Law No 158 of 23 October 2024 was relevant in the present procedure for validating...

On 23 January 2024, in case Municipality of Westerwolde v Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers‚ COA) (C/18230420 / KG ZA 23-241), the District Court of Northern Netherlands in Groningen ruled that the COA must adhere to the maximum occupancy of 2,000 asylum seekers at the Ter Apel reception location agreed with the municipality of Westerwolde and that failure to do so carries a penalty of €15,000 per day with a maximum of...

A Cameroonian national applied for international protection in Cyprus on 28 March 2018. On 2 March 2022 she was notified the rejection of her request for protection.

The applicant appealed the decision arguing that she cannot return to Cameroon because she is homosexual, and she will be killed as this is a criminal offense in her country of origin. She also argued that she is in danger as her mother was murdered and her sister was abducted by the Ambazonians.

The court...

According to the press release of the ECtHR:

"The applicants are six Bangladeshi nationals who arrived in Malta on 18 November 2022 after being rescued at sea with around another 40 individuals. The applicants claimed to be 16-17 years old. They were taken to the Ħal Far Initial Reception Centre (HIRC) with the rest of the group and were made to stay in what they considered to be inappropriate and...

The applicants, 12 nationals of Egypt and Bangladesh, were part of the first group sent to Albania under the Protocol between the Italian Republic and the Albanian government, made enforceable by Law No 14 of 21 February 2024. The Tribunal of Rome did not uphold their detention orders issued by the Rome Police Headquarters.

The Tribunal noted that Article 4(3) of the Protocol allows migrants to enter Albania solely for border or...

The case concerned a request for a preliminary ruling submitted by the Court of the Hague seated in Roermond, on the interpretation of the EU Charter and the Return Directive - K,L,M,N v State Secretary for Justice and Security (Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid), 13 March 2023. 

The case concerned the lawfulness of a decision rejecting the application for a residence permit provided by Dutch law and finding that the applicant's...

The case concerned the appeal lodged by F.D.G., a Russian national, against the negative decision issued by the SAR on his application for international protection. The applicant argued that there have been procedural violations on the assessment of his claim and that not all facts and circumstances have been clarified. He mentioned to have received a summons to appear at the military commissariat for enrolment and subsequent mobilization. He claimed that there are legitimate concerns about...

The applicant, a national of Bangladesh, was among the first group transferred to Albania under the Protocol between the Italian Republic and the Albanian government, made enforceable by Law No 14 of 21 February 2024. The Territorial Commission of Siracusa assessed the application for international protection pursuant to the accelerated procedure set forth in Article 28-bis(2)(c) of Legislative Decree No 25/2008, as it involved an applicant from a country designated as a safe country of...

The case concerned the removal of a Syrian national from Germany, where he had expressed the wish to request asylum, to Greece, on the day of his arrival (4 September 2018) under an administrative arrangement concluded between the two countries in 2018. The case also concerned the applicant’s detention in Greece.

Before the ECtHR, the applicant complained under Article 3 and 13 that he was removed from Germany without his asylum application being registered and without an...

Registered with the CJEU under C-718/24.

The case concerned an application for international protection submitted by a Syrian national and which was rejected by the State Agency for Refugees (SAR). The case reached the cassation appeal level and was re-examined by the SAR, then another appeal was submitted against the second SAR decision. In fact, the applicant is a Syrian national of Arab ethnicity, a Sunni Muslim of religious affiliation, unaccompanied...

The applicant, a Malian national, applied for asylum on 21 December 2019. The Minister for Asylum and Migration did not consider it credible that the applicant was born in 2003, and was thus a minor at the time of his application. Upon further investigation, the Minister considered based on the principle of mutual trust, that they could rely on the findings of an age assessment conducted by Belgium which found that the applicant was an adult, born in 1995. Following...

On 29 May 2024, the State Secretary for Justice and Security (at present the Minister for Asylum and Migration) dismissed the asylum application of a Syrian national on the grounds that, under the Dublin III Regulation, Croatia was responsible for handling his asylum application. The applicant appealed this decision, arguing that his return to Croatia would expose him to serious risks, including pushbacks and inadequate reception conditions. The District Court of...

According to the ECtHR press release: 

"The applicants, M.A. and Z.R., are Syrian nationals who were born in 1983 in Idlib, Syrian, and live in Lebanon. They are cousins.

According to M.A. and Z.R., on 1 January 2016 they fled Idlib, Syria, because of the war, the targeting of civilians and the destruction of their homes, and went to Lebanon, where they stayed in camps run by...

The case concerned the continuous detention of the applicant between 2 and 17 May 2024 on the basis of two consecutively imposed detention measures. The Court of the Hague seated in Roermond found that the first measure, which was imposed to ensure the implementation of the Dublin transfer decision of the applicant to Spain, was unlawful before this measure was lifted. However, the State Secretary kept the applicant in custody - in the situation in which his liberty was unlawfully deprived -...

According to the court press release:

"Two women with Afghan nationality challenge the refusal by the Austrian authorities to recognise their refugee status before the Austrian Supreme Administrative Court. They claim that the situation of women under the new Taliban regime alone justifies being granted that status. According to the Austrian court, the return to power of that regime in...