A Member State may grant subsidiary protection status under European Union law (Directive 2011/95) to a woman who fears for her life, if she is forced to return to her third country of origin, ruled the Court of Justice of the EU in a judgment handed down on Tuesday 16 January (case C-621/21).
In Bulgaria, a Turkish national of Kurdish origin, of Muslim faith and divorced, who alleges that she was married by force by her family, beaten and threatened by her husband, is seeking...