In her conclusions delivered on Thursday 4 May in the 'K' (C-18/16) case, the Advocate General, Eleanor Sharpston, asserts that European rules do authorise the detention of an asylum seeker in order to establish their identity or when there is a danger of them absconding.
At the end of 2015, an Iranian national arriving at Schiphol airport (the Netherlands) was arrested and taken into custody for the possession of a false passport when he was preparing to travel to the United Kingdom. He was...