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AN (Afghanistan) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

United Nations Human Rights Committee.  09 July 2015 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Abstract

Aliens — Refugees — Determination of refugee status — Exclusion from protection due to participation in international crimes — Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Interpretation — Article 1F — Whether “serious reasons for considering” appellant was complicit in war crimes — Standard of proof — Whether change of approach by UK Supreme Court in Al-Sirri material to Asylum and Immigration Tribunal decision

Human rights — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Article 3 — Non-refoulement — Whether entitlement to additional protection under Convention relating to Status of Refugees, 1951 or EU Council Directive 2004/83/EC

International criminal law — War crimes — Elements of complicity in war crimes — Whether finding of English judge that appellant complicit in war crimes correct

War and armed conflict — Non-international armed conflict — Afghanistan — Whether appellant complicit in war crimes during non-international armed conflict — The law of England

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© Cambridge University Press 2018

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