A person who has in the past been tortured in his country of origin is eligible for ‘subsidiary protection’ if he faces a real risk of being intentionally deprived, in that country, of appropriate physical and psychological health care, according to a declaration by the European Court of Justice in a ruling delivered on Tuesday 24 April (C-353/16).
MP is a national of Sri Lanka who arrived in the UK in January 2005. MP lodged an application for asylum on the basis that he had been...