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 his political activism and involvement in the paramilitary wing of a Lebanese political party. He added that he was subjected to threats and attempted murder, so he feared that if returned to Lebanon, he would be arrested and sentenced to imprisonment or the death...

A Chinese applicant who was residing in Ukraine with his Ukrainian wife and child before 24 February 2022, travelled to the Netherlands on 7 March 2022 and applied for asylum on 13 April 2022. The Minister for Asylum initiated the processing of the asylum application and conducted the personal interview for his asylum application on 19 September 2023, at a registration center in Ter Apel. The same day, the Minister informed the applicant that the asylum application would not be processed...

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 of persecution in Afghanistan on account of a blood feud targeting persons who were related to his father, due to a property dispute concerning agricultural land between his father and his father’s cousins. A N stated that his father and brother were killed by his father’s cousins as part...

A Somali national entered the European Union in Cyprus and subsequently applied for asylum in the Netherlands.

Because Cyprus was considered responsible for the processing of the asylum application under the Dublin III Regulation, by decision of 18 April 2024, the State Secretary for Justice and Security decided not to examine the application in the Netherlands and to transfer the applicant back to Cyprus. The applicant challenged the decision on the Dublin transfer, arguing...

The applicants' minor son, Ameer Mokhlas, an Iraqi national, died on 29 August 2015 near the island of Symi, following a shot fired by a Greek coastguard during an operation to intercept a boat illegally transporting people to Greece. The facts of the case were disputed between the parties, but they essentially concerned the interception operation of people on the yacht "YAVUSUM 16" (under the Turkish flag) as part of the joint European operation "Poseidon –...

Syrian nationals who were granted refugee status in Greece applied for international protection in Germany and they argued that they cannot return to Greece because they would face inhuman or degrading treatment within the meaning of Article 4 of the EU Charter.

In Germany, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) granted them subsidiary protection and rejected their applications for refugee status.

By order of 7 September 2022 (BVerwG 1 C 26.21), the Federal...

An Iranian national was granted refugee status in March 2017. In 2019, he was sentenced to 2 years and 3 months' imprisonment for drug offenses. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees revoked his refugee status in June 2020, refused to grant him subsidiary protection, and imposed a deportation ban with regard to Iran.

In July 2021, an expulsion measure and a three-year entry and residence ban were imposed on him, considering general preventive reasons in light of the...

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 Hague on the grounds that the continuation of her deprivation of liberty from 10 January to 16 January at the Schiphol Judicial Complex (JCS) had been unlawful.

M.C., a national of Guatemala, requested international protection in France, as he feared being exposed to persecution or serious harm from people in his entourage and the surrounding society if he returned to his country of origin, due to his membership in the particular social group of homosexuals in Guatemala, without being able to benefit from the authorities’ effective protection.

By decision of 23 October 2023, the French Office for Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA)...

On 15 October 2024, the Dutch Minister of Asylum and Migration declared the applicant’s asylum request inadmissible because he had received international protection in Italy from 2017 until August 2022. The District Court of the Hague, seated in Arnhem, declared an appeal against the Minister’s decision to be unfounded on 17 December 2024. The applicant lodged a further appeal before the Council of State, arguing that he had no income or accommodation in...

VP, an Iranian national, obtained refugee status in Hungary in 2014 based on transgender identity. According to the medical, psychiatric, and gynaecological certificates submitted, although the applicant was born female, VP’s gender identity was male. The applicant was nonetheless registered as female in the asylum register containing identification data, including gender, of the natural persons who have obtained refugee status.

In 2022, the applicant submitted a request to...

The applicant, a national of Palestine*, was granted refugee status in Greece. He later entered Belgium and requested international protection there. On 10 December 2024, he was placed on the waiting register, but Fedasil did not provide him with accommodation. On 13 December 2024, the applicant’s legal representative requested that Fedasil and the Belgian State offer him a reception place within 24 hours. The same day, the Belgian State advised the legal representative to contact...

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 municipality to be responsible for their housing and they were placed together in a family home...

According to the ECtHR press release of 6 March 2025:

"The applicant, F.B., is a Guinean national who arrived in Belgium on 2 August 2019. On 5 August 2019 she lodged an application for international protection, stating that she was a minor, aged 16. She produced a non-legalised copy of her birth certificate and stated that she had fled her country of origin to escape mistreatment resulting...

AA, a national of Iraq, was granted refugee status in Sweden in July 2017. In September 2020, he was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for assault, aggravated unlawful threats, petty drug offenses, and serious weapons offenses. After the sentence remained final, the Swedish Migration Agency decided in January 2024 to revoke AA's refugee status because the serious weapons offense he was convicted of constituted a particularly serious crime. 

AA appealed the...