CASE OF A.B. AND Y.W. v. MALTA (no. 2559/23)
What was at stake
Whether the applicants’ removal to China would expose them to a real risk of treatment prohibited by Article 3 (the absolute prohibition of torture).
What the court decided
The Court rejected the Government’s objection that the applicants had not exhausted domestic remedies, finding that all available remedies had been pursued. It then held that deporting the applicants to China would breach the absolute prohibition of torture under Article 3.
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