The judgment relates to the ECtHR's previous judgment pronounced on 14 November 2019, in which the court found violations of Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention due to Finland's decisions to deport the applicant’s father to his country of origin, Iraq, where he was subsequently killed. In that judgment the court had found that the Finnish authorities had not carried out a thorough assessment of the individual risks faced by the applicant’s father in Iraq in a context of tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslim groups.

In this latest judgment, the Finnish Government requested the revision of the judgment of 14 November 2019 as new facts had been discovered, which had been unknown to the Government at the time of the delivery of the judgment. Specifically, a national court established that the applicant and her ex-husband conspired to forge documents subsequently used as evidence before the Helsinki Administrative Court and before the ECtHR. These documents and false information were used as essential evidence by both of these courts. 

The ECtHR concluded that the applicant knowingly intended to deceive the court and thus, it rejected the application due to the abuse of right of petition.