Communicated on 12 February 2021
Published on 1 March 2021
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 8757/20
Karim AZZAQUI
against the Netherlands
lodged on 10 February 2020
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the decision to withdraw the applicant’s residence permit and to impose a ten-year entry ban on him because of a series of criminal convictions. This decision was taken in 2018 and was upheld by the national courts.
The applicant is a Moroccan national born in 1972 who entered the Netherlands in 1982. Apart from a short period in 1990, he held a residence permit allowing him to stay in the Netherlands until the impugned decision. The applicant is and has been subjected to an order for his confinement in a custodial clinic (terbeschikkingstelling met bevel tot verpleging van overheidswege) since this was imposed on him by the Arnhem Regional Court in 1996.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
Has there been a violation of the applicant’s right to respect for his private life contrary to Article 8 of the Convention?
In particular, have the domestic courts, when conducting the Article 8 proportionality assessment, carefully examined the facts, applied the human rights standards consistently with the Convention and its case-law, and adequately balanced the applicant’s personal interests against the general public interest (Ndidi v. United Kingdom, no. 41215/14, § 76, 14 September 2017)?
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