Kanagaratnam and Others v. Belgium, ECtHR, Application no. 15297/09, Judgment of 13 December 2011

ECtHR decision on the detention of a mother with her three children in a closed center for four months. The family had been refouled after applying for asylum at the border at Brussels Zaventem airport. The European Court of Human Rights condemned Belgium on the basis of articles 3 and 5 § 1 of the Convention.