CASE OF A.B. AND OTHERS v. POLAND (no. 42907/17)
What was at stake
Whether the applicants' removal to Belarus would expose them to treatment contrary to the prohibition of torture, and whether the removal constituted a collective expulsion of aliens in breach of the Protocol.
What the court decided
The Court held that Poland violated the prohibition of torture in the context of the applicants' expulsion, breached the prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens, denied the applicants an effective remedy for that breach, and hindered their right to have their application examined; it also ordered Poland to pay both pecuniary and non‑pecuniary damages.
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