The Finnish Immigration Service has suspended its practice of deporting asylum seekers to Hungary following a ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court overturning the return of an Afghan man to the country. The Court said that the deportation would jeopardise the man’s human rights.
The verdict comes amid a renewed EU-level push to lift a similar pan-European transfer ban on Greece in June despite the deteriorating conditions of some 46,000 people, mostly women and children, stranded in the country along the border with Macedonia in Idomeni.
The Finnish Supreme Administrative Court deemed that there is a risk that the man would be deported from Hungary to Serbia and from there to Afghanistan without having any authorities assess his asylum application or his need for international protection. Hungary is the only EU country that considers Serbia to be safe for asylum seekers and returns them there.
Sweden had also suspend transfers to Hungary but may now back track.
source: http://yle.fi, eurobserver
