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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10991

8 January 2014
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 24
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) human rights
Court rules against Switzerland on expulsion of Sudanese

Brussels, 07/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Human Rights states in a ruling on Tuesday 7 January that it opposes the expulsion by Switzerland of a failed asylum seeker from Switzerland to Sudan.

The Court considers that Switzerland would be acting in breach of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), if the applicant were sent back to Sudan, where he runs the risk of being placed in...