Communicated on 13 September 2017
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 38967/17
H.M. and Others
against Hungary
lodged on 1 June 2017
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the ongoing confinement, in conditions which are allegedly inhuman, of an Iraqi family (the father, the pregnant mother and their four minor children) to the Tompa transit zone at the border of Hungary and Serbia from 3 April 2017, pending the examination of their asylum requests.
QUESTIONS tO THE PARTIES
1. Have the applicants been subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment at the Tompa border transit zone, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention, having regard in particular to the vulnerable status of the family?
2. Were the applicants deprived of their liberty in the transit zone in breach of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention (see, mutatis mutandis, Amuur v. France, 25 June 1996, §§ 38-49, Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1996‑III, and Riad and Idiab v. Belgium, nos. 29787/03 and 29810/03, § 68, 24 January 2008)?
3. If so, did the applicants have at their disposal an effective procedure by which they could challenge the lawfulness of the detention, as required by Article 5 § 4 of the Convention?
4. Did the applicants have at their disposal an effective domestic remedy for their complaint under Article 3 of the Convention with regard to allegedly inhuman or degrading treatment at the transit zone, as required by Article 13 of the Convention?
H.M. is an Iraqi national who was born in 1978 and is represented by Ms B. Pohárnok. J.K. is an Iraqi national who was born in 1980 and is represented by Ms B. Pohárnok. L.M. is an Iraqi national who was born in 2001 and is represented by Ms B. Pohárnok. A.M. is an Iraqi national who was born in 2007 and is represented by Ms B. Pohárnok. A.M. is an Iraqi national who was born in 2009 and is represented by Ms B. Pohárnok. A.M. is an Iraqi national who was born in 2013 and is represented by Ms B. Pohárnok.
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