Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 01/21/2011

Subject: Grand Chamber judgment, according to which the Belgian authorities should not have expelled to Greece a person seeking asylum, both because the “defaillances” in the asylum procedure in Greece and the living conditions, that were in breach of article 3

Parties: M.S.S. c/ Belgio e Grecia

Classification: Dignity - Art. 4 Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Freedoms - Art. 18 Right to asylum