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CASE OF Y.K. v. CROATIA (no. 38776/21)

Council of Europe (ECtHR)2025
Low precedent
Strategic issue

What was at stake

Whether the applicant’s removal to North Macedonia would expose him to a real risk of treatment contrary to the prohibition of torture, and whether the domestic system provided an effective remedy for that risk.

Key holding

What the court decided

The Court held that the applicant’s expulsion would breach the prohibition of torture, constituting a violation, and that the authorities failed to provide an effective remedy for that breach, also a violation. It awarded the applicant moral damages.

Issue areas

Categories

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Source

Authoritative link

Source of record
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-244416
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