International Commission of Jurists

Administrative Court of Sofia, Decision No. 6917, 11 November 2015

Apr 17, 2025

The court declared unlawful and annulled the order for the immigration detention of a child pending removal. According to Bulgarian law, unaccompanied minors cannot be detained. The court recognized the claimant as one and found that the order did not indicate the...

Administrative Court of Sofia, Decision No. 7000, 24 November 2017

Apr 17, 2025

The court declared unlawful and annulled the order for the immigration detention of a child pending removal. According to Bulgarian law, unaccompanied minors cannot be detained. The court recognized the claimant as being one and found that the order did not indicate...

Bashir Mohamed Ali Mahdi, CJEU, Case No. C-146/14 PPU, 5 June 2014

Sep 5, 2022

The CJEU said that immigration related detention is justified only in order to prepare the return or carry out the removal process and if the application of less coercive measures would not be sufficient. Only the judicial authority should deal with the decisions...

Administrative Court of Sofia, Decision No. 4182, 24 June 2021

Sep 5, 2022

The Court concluded that a child born in Bulgaria, who is fully integrated in the community cannot be returned to his country of origin together with his mother, where he will be at risk of being persecuted under Article 9, para 1 in relation to para 2, item f of...
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