On Thursday 25 January, the judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided (Case C-473/16) that a state could not subject an asylum seeker to a psychological test in order to determine his/her sexual orientation.
In April 2015, a citizen of Niger introduced a request for asylum in Hungary, fearing that he would be persecuted in his own country for being homosexual. His request was rejected after psychological expertise requested by the Hungarian authorities did not...