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Belgium exposed vulnerable Serbian asylum seekers to extreme poverty in breach of ECHR

17 July 2015

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ECRE's weekly bulletin reports that: "In a judgment delivered this week, the European Court of Human Rights held that the conditions of extreme poverty faced by a Serbian family of asylum seekers following their eviction from an accommodation centre in Belgium amounted to degrading treatment, contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."

ECHR press release: The conditions of extreme poverty faced by a family of asylum seekers following their eviction from an accommodation centre constituted degrading treatment (pdf)

Judgment: AFFAIRE V.M. ET AUTRES c. BELGIQUE (pdf)

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