No. 185

05.03.2010

Press release issued by the Registrar

FORTHCOMING CHAMBER JUDGMENT

9 March 2010

The European Court of Human Rights will be notifying in writing one Chamber judgment on Tuesday 9 March 2010.

A press release and text of the judgment will be available at 11 a.m. (local time) on the Court’s Internet site (http://www.echr.coe.int).

Tuesday 9 March 2010

R.C. v. Sweden (application no. 41827/07)

The applicant, R.C., is an Iranian national, born in 1965, who has been seeking asylum in Sweden since his arrival there in October 2003. His requests refused, the Migration Board has most recently stayed the enforcement of a deportation order against him following the European Court of Human Right’s indication to the Swedish Government under Rule 39 (interim measures) of its Rules of Court that the applicant should not be deported until further notice. Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment and torture) of the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicant alleges that, if deported to Iran, he would be at real risk of being arrested and subjected to inhuman treatment and torture.

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