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

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)

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

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

The case is related to an asylum seeker from Pakistan who was denied refugee status by the Territorial Commission (the eligibility authority) due to lack of credibility. The Tribunal accepted the credibility of the applicant’s claim, also considering the testimony of a Pakistan men that, living in the same village, knew the isolation suffered by … Read more

Il caso riguarda un richiedente asilo del Pakistan al quale era stato negato lo status di rifugiato dalla Commissione territoriale competente, per motivi legati alla credibilita’. Considerate la testimonianza di un abitante del medesimo villaggio in Pakistan sull’isolamento vissuto dal ricorrente a causa del suo orientamento sessuale e del Paese di origine, il Tribunale ha ritenuto credibile il … Read more

The case is related to an asylum seeker coming from Bangladesh, belonging to the Rohingya ethnicity, who was granted refugee status by the Tribunal of Catanzaro (after his application was rejected by the Commissione territoriale – the eligibility authority). The Tribunal found that the applicant made all attempts to prove his personal background, while all information … Read more