Back Expulsion of Afghans from Slovakia to Ukraine did not amount to collective expulsion

On 24 March 2020, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a Chamber judgment in the case of Asady and Others v. Slovakia (application no. 24917/15), which concerned the Slovakian police’s expulsion of a group of Afghan nationals to Ukraine after they had been found in the back of a truck. The Court held, by four votes to three, that there had been no violation of Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 (prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens) to the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court examined the complaints of only seven of the 19 applicants, striking the case out of its list in respect of the others. It found in particular that despite short interviews at the police station, they had been given a genuine possibility to draw the authorities’ attention to any issue which could have affected their status and entitled them to remain in Slovakia. Their removal had not been carried out without any examination of their individual circumstances.

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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