Rome Court decision against Italy’s illegal migrant pushbacks is a significant step
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We warmly commend the decision of the Court of Rome, deeming the pushbacks of asylum seekers and migrants on the Italian-Slovenian border illegal; condemning the Italian Ministry of the Interior and acknowledging the inhuman and degrading treatment migrants are subjected to along the Balkan Route; Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement today. We further urge the EU Commission to step in to put an end to Italy s informal readmissions and illegal push backs in the Balkan Route.
On 18 January 2021, with a 13-page verdict the Judge Silvia Albano of the Court of Rome declared the illegality of informal readmissions of migrants and asylum seekers to Slovenia, increasingly carried out by Italy since the Spring of 2020, on the basis of a bilateral agreement with Slovenia signed in 1996 and never ratified by the Italian Parliament.
Wednesday, 27 January 2021, 6:13 am
We warmly commend the decision of the Court of Rome,
deeming the pushbacks of asylum seekers and migrants on the
Italian-Slovenian border illegal; condemning the Italian
Ministry of the Interior and acknowledging the inhuman and
degrading treatment migrants are subjected to along the
Balkan Route; Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a
statement today. We further urge the EU Commission to step
in to put an end to Italy’s informal readmissions and
illegal push backs in the Balkan Route.
On 18 January
2021, with a
13-page verdict the Judge Silvia Albano of the Court of
Rome declared the illegality of informal readmissions of
An Italian judge ordered the Interior Ministry to assess a gay Pakistani man’s claim for asylum after he was forcefully and immediately expelled from Italy last summer.
A man fills up containers from a hose that delivers water to a shanty town where thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees live in southern Italy’s Foggia province. (Courthouse News photo/Cain Burdeau)
(CN) Italy is illegally sending asylum seekers who cross its borders back into the Balkans, where they are routinely beaten and mistreated by police, according to an Italian judge.
In a ruling this week, Judge Silvia Albano with the Court of Rome found that Italian authorities illegally expelled a 27-year-old gay Pakistani man last July without processing his claim for asylum after he was picked up by police in Trieste, a city near the border with Slovenia. He said he was fleeing persecution for his sexual orientation in Pakistan.