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Article 3 ECHR and returning an Afghan Christian convert: AA v Switzerland
The ECtHR has held, unanimously, that the removal from Switzerland to Afghanistan of an Afghan Muslim of Hazara ethnicity who had converted to Christianity would violate his rights under Article 3 ECHR...
View ArticleLaw and religion round-up – 12th April
“The promulgation of law for the protection of a position held purely on religious grounds …” Per Laws LJ in McFarlane v Relate Avon Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 880 at [22]: “The promulgation of law for the...
View ArticleAsylum: may a bogus Christian “convert” be returned to Iran?: MR
In MR v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKAITUR PA124772018, the anonymous appellant had left Iran illegally and had claimed asylum in 2011 on the basis of his conversion to...
View ArticleLaw and religion round-up – 8th August
COVID-19 and places of worship in Scotland In reply to a question as to whether it is a legal requirement to wear a face mask in places of worship when COVID-19 restrictions are at level zero, the...
View ArticleThe Abortion Act 1967 and Down Syndrome: Crowter
In R (Crowter & Ors) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2021] EWHC 2536 (Admin), the issue before the Court was the fact that the Abortion Act 1967 differentiates between pregnancies...
View ArticleFailure to protect LGBT demonstrators from mob violence: Women’s Initiatives...
In Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group and Others v Georgia [2021] ECHR 1097, the European Court of Human Rights held that Georgia’s failure to protect LGBT demonstrators from mob violence violated...
View ArticleReturning a Christian convert to Pakistan? MAM v Switzerland
Background In MAM v Switzerland [2022] ECHR 317 [in French], the applicant, a Pakistan national, had arrived in Switzerland as an asylum seeker in 2015. He had told the Swiss authorities that for the...
View ArticleFostering and sexual and religious abuse: Loste
Background In Loste v France [2022] ECHR (application no. 59227/12) [in French], Ms Loste had been placed in foster care at the age of 5. She complained that the child welfare service, l’association...
View ArticleRussia and the Jehovah’s Witnesses again: Nabokikh
Nabokikh and Others v Russia [2023] ECHR 97 was about the disruption of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ religious meetings. Background The applicants organised or participated in religious assemblies held on the...
View ArticleMuslims, Orthodox, mob action and hate speech: Georgian Muslim Relations and...
In Georgian Muslim Relations and Others v Georgia [2023] ECHR 949, the presenting issue was the Government’s alleged failure to take adequate measures to protect the applicants from unlawful mob...
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