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Committee of the Appeals Authority, Decision, 2 June 2021

Mar 23, 2022

The Committee decided to postpone the adoption of a decision on the age of the applicant and to refer the applicant, a minor, to an age assessment under the legal procedure. The minor from Afghanistan was residing in Lesvos RIC and had been wrongfully assessed as an...

Sofia District Court, Case No. 18192/2011, 5 April 2012

Jan 26, 2022

With this judgment an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child was placed in a family-type accommodation center for children and young people aged 7 to 18 years in preparation for reintegration into a family environment. The court took into consideration that the child...

Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Bulgaria, Case No. 9836/2016, Judgement No. 10872, 18 October 2016

Jan 26, 2022

The ruling concerns the right to legal representation and to a lawyer of two detained unaccompanied migrant children (12 and 14 years old) who, as minors, did not have the legal capacity to sign a power of attorney of a lawyer (this must be done by their legal...

District Court of Ihtiman, Case No. 745/2016, Judgment No. 15, 1 February 2017

Jan 26, 2022

In the case of an unaccompanied child registered as an asylum seeker, the court stated that the Bulgarian legislation is applicable to all children residing in the country and in this sense, since the child was at risk, appropriate protection measures under the Law on...

S.F. and others v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, Application No. 8138/16, Judgment of 7 December 2017

Jan 26, 2022

The case concerns three Iraqi children who had fled Iraq accompanied by their parents, who were intercepted by the police at the Bulgarian-Serbian border and detained (with their parents) in a Border Police detention facility. The Court found that Bulgaria had...