Y (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Z (Sri Lanka) v Same – Times Law Reports

Posted May 5th, 2009 in asylum, human rights, law reports, mental health, torture by sally

Y (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Z (Sri Lanka) v Same

Court of Appeal

“It would be a breach of article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibiting torture, to order the return of an asylum seeker to a country where there was an undisturbed finding that the asylum seeker had been tortured and raped in captivity and where credible and uncontradicted expert evidence was that the likely effect of the trauma, if return was enforced, would be suicide.”

The Times, 5th May 2009

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk