The applicant, a minor Afghan national of Hazara ethnicity, requested international protection on 12 June 2019. On 24 November 2020, the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum decided to refuse his request stating that the applicant invoked in general the lack of security in Afghanistan and an explosion which took place in his school after which he decided to leave his country of origin. The applicant appealed the decision before the Administrative Tribunal.

The court dismissed the appeal as inadmissible arguing that the applicant did not lodge the appeal through his legal representative, as required by law for minors, but made the request himself. The court noted that the appeal was lodged by the minor applicant on 24 December 2020 while his ad hoc representative made a request to replace the minor's representative on 14 December 2020 and legally became his representative on 4 January 2021.