Facts: The applicant was born in Bhutan to parents of Nepalese ethnicity. He claimed he had been denied citizenship of Bhutan because of his ethnicity and that his family home had been attacked and his parents killed. He subsequently left Bhutan and went to live in India where he lived for a number of years, before ultimately arranging with a … Read More
BDR v Refugee Appeals Tribunal
| Respondent/Defendant: | Refugee Appeals Tribunal |
| Court/s: | High Court |
| Citation/s: | [2016] IEHC 274 |
| Nature of Proceedings: | Judicial Review |
| Judgment Date/s: | 25 May 2016 |
| Judge: | Faherty M. |
| Category: | Refugee Law |
| Keywords: | Asylum, Protection (International), Refugee, Refugee Law, Stateless Person |
| Country of Origin: | Bhutan |
| URL: | https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/61b87a1a-bde6-4b76-93c2-9c03819acb17/2016_IEHC_274_1.pdf/pdf#view=fitH |
| Geographic Focus: | Other |
| Principles: | The decision in BDR establishes that a stateless asylum seeker with more than one country of former habitual residence is not required to prove a well founded fear of persecution in every country of former habitual residence in order to be recognised as a refugee. It is sufficient that the asylum seeker has a well founded fear in one country of former habitual residence and that the asylum seeker is unable or unwilling to return to any of the other countries of former habitual residence. |