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Court of Szeged, Decision No. 6.K.27.060/2018/8, 1 March 2018

Sep 5, 2022

The case concerns a married couple from Iraq who submitted asylum applications on July 10. 2017. The asylum authority rejected their application and expelled them to Iraq. The applicants requested a review of the decision before a national court which subsequently...

R.R. and Others v. Hungary, ECtHR, Application no. 36037/17, Judgment of 2 March 2021

Sep 5, 2022

Keeping asylum-seeking family in the transit zone amounts to detention in breach of Articles 5(1) and 5(4). Significant case, as the Court finally joined the broad consensus regarding the nature of placement in the Hungarian transit zones, contrary to the findings in...

Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Bulgaria, Case No. 10453/2019, Judgment No. 75, 6 January 2020

Sep 5, 2022

The court repealed the order for immigration detention of a mother and her child. The detention order did not contain reasoning as to the exceptionality of the situation that required detention and the administrative body had made no assessment to protect the...

Administrative Court of Sofia, Decision No. 8426, 30 December 2016

Sep 5, 2022

The asylum authorities had detained an unaccompanied asylum seeking child on the ground that it was in the interest of his own safety as he had taken part in fights with other asylum seekers at the reception centre. However, the court repealed the detention order...

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

Sep 5, 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...