AQS & KIS v Refugee Applications Commissioner

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Respondent/Defendant:Refugee Applications Commissioner
Court/s:High Court
Citation/s:[2010] IEHC 421
Nature of Proceedings:Judicial Review
Judgment Date/s:23 Nov 2010
Judge:Hogan J.
Category:Refugee Law
Keywords:Persecution, Refugee, Refugee Law
Country of Origin:Azerbaijan
URL:https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/bbeec605-eef5-4310-9b45-6a3800ec44b3/2010_IEHC_421_1.pdf/pdf#view=fitH
Geographic Focus:Ireland

The Applicants were Azeri nationals (husband and wife), who applied for and obtained asylum status in Poland in April 2006. Mr S was a journalist who became editor in chief of a prominent opposition newspaper in Azerbaijan  in 1994. He complained that during his tenure as editor he was subjected to assaults, threats and blackmail and that agents of the … Read More

Principles:

It is not enough for an applicant to simply allege a fear of persecution: he/she must go further and must generally show that the state in question is either not disposed to granting reasonable protection, or, perhaps, is simply not in a position to do so.

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