THIRD SECTION
Application no. 7049/13
Saleh MOHAMED HUSSEIN
against the Netherlands
lodged on 25 January 2013
STATEMENT OF FACTS
THE FACTS
The applicant, Mr Saleh Mohamed Hussein, is a citizen of Somalia. He was born in 1986 and currently stays in the Netherlands. He is represented before the Court by Mr J.W.F. Noot, a lawyer practising in Dordrecht.
The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.
On 27 October 2009 the applicant unsuccessfully applied for asylum in the Netherlands. The final decision on this application was taken by the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State (Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State) on 29 August 2012.
COMPLAINTS
The applicant complains under Article 3 of the Convention that there are substantial grounds for believing that he will be subjected to treatment prohibited by that provision if he were expelled to Somalia.
QUESTION
Is it the Government’s intention to expel the applicant to Mogadishu? If so, for what reasons do the Government believe that the violence in Mogadishu is no longer of such a level of intensity that anyone in the city, except possibly those who are exceptionally well-connected to “powerful actors”, would be at real risk of treatment prohibited by Article 3 of the Convention (see Sufi and Elmi v. the United Kingdom, nos. 8319/07 and 11449/07, § 293, 28 June 2011)? Would the applicant personally be at risk of such treatment if expelled to Mogadishu?
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