Ask the Dust Basilien-Gainche, Marie-Laure Author aut Text xx# 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-07-10 eng
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 Last week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) condemned France for violating Article 3 of the Convention, by reducing asylum seekers to destitution in such an intensity that it constitutes a degrading treatment. It asserts that the French authorities failed to fulfill their obligations under national law against three of the plaintiffs. According to the Court, the national authorities must be held responsible for the conditions in which they left the asylum seekers, who lived for months on the street, without any resources, without any access to sanitary facilities, without any means of providing for their basic needs and in the constant anguish of being attacked and robbed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Basilien-Gainche, Marie-Laure asylum degrading treatment ECtHR 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/ask-the-dust/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20200710-235439-0 200710 10.17176/20200710-235439-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)