High Court of Australia, Appellant S395/2002 v. Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs; Appellant S396/2002 v. Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, [2003] HCA 71, 9 December 2003

First section, Application no. 31428/18, S.A.C. against the United Kingdom, lodged on 5 July 2018 Summary This application concerns a Bangladeshi national who had claimed asylum on the ground that he feared persecution on return to Bangladesh as a gay/bisexual man. He was denied international protection. The applicant complains under Article 3 of the ECHR … Read more

Nina Held, SOGICA Table of German SOGI asylum case law 1988-2018, September 2018

Decision of the Fourth Section of the ECtHR in A.E. v. Finland, Application no. 30953/11, 22 September 2015

Jafarizad Barenji Rana v Hungary, Application no. 40888/17, lodged on 29 May 2017 (Fourth section)

Decision of the Third Section of the ECtHR in A.T. v. Sweden, Application no. 78701/14, 25 of April 2017

The case concerns a transgender Malaysian national who claimed that her deportation from Denmark to Malaysia would violate her rights under Article 7 ICCPR (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment), in conjunction with articles 17(1) (privacy and family life), 18(1) (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and 26 (non-discrimination). The Committee considered her claims admissible … Read more

Il caso e’ relativo a un richiedente asilo del Gambia al quale era stato negato lo status di rifugiato per motivi legati alla credibilita’ del suo racconto personale. La Commissione territoriale aveva dato, peraltro, peso anche al fatto che in Gambia le sanzioni penali contro persone omossessuali non sarebbero effettivamente applicate. La Corte di appello … Read more

The case is related to an asylum seeker from Tunisia who, despite the denial of the refugee status, was granted a humanitarian protection due to his sexual orientation and religion in accordance with the principle of non-refoulement.