http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210709-140123-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/rights-that-are-not-illusory/ Rights that are not Illusory - The ECtHR Rules on Pushbacks from Hungary Schmalz, Dana eng 2021-07-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Collective Expulsion ECHR Hungary Migration Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 8 July, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in case Shahzad v. Hungary, concerning the denial of access to an asylum procedure and the forced removal of a Pakistani national by Hungarian police officers. The court found that the acts violated the prohibition of collective expulsion as well as the right to an effective remedy. With this decision, the Court on the one hand straightens out some possible misunderstandings, on the other hand returns to the line of argument opened in N.D. and N.T. v. Spain in ways that should be considered more closely.