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Hungary - Metropolitan Court, 22 April 2011, 17.K30.864/2010/18

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Strategic issue

What was at stake

EDAL summary. The applicant could not substantiate the individual elements of his claim with respect to his well-founded fear of a blood feud; however, he was able to satisfy the criteria for subsidiary protection....

Facts

What happened

The applicant, an Afghan national, fled his country at age eight due to a family blood feud where his father killed his uncle's son. He lived in Pakistan for a year and then in Iran for ten years. He feared returning to Afghanistan as his uncle might kill him, but his asylum application was initially rejected by the Office of Immigration and Nationality.

Key holding

What the court decided

The Metropolitan Court held that the applicant could not substantiate a well‑founded fear of a blood feud and therefore did not qualify for refugee status, but he satisfied the criteria for subsidiary protection because the indiscriminate violence in Ghazni province posed a serious and individual threat to his life, and internal protection was not reasonably available; consequently the court overturned the OIN decision and granted subsidiary protection.

Reasoning

How the court got there

The court decided to grant subsidiary protection because the applicant could not substantiate his fear of a blood feud, but the indiscriminate violence in Ghazni province posed a serious threat to his life. The court found that internal protection was not viable as the applicant had no family ties in other parts of Afghanistan.

Authorities

Statutes and cases cited

Statutes & treaties
  • § Qualification Directive 2004/83/EC
  • § 1951 Refugee Convention
Issue areas

Categories

asylumrefugee
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