Communicated on 22 October 2019
FOURTH SECTION
Application no. 15977/17
S.B.
against Hungary
lodged on 23 February 2017
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the alleged absence of legal basis for the detention of the applicant, a minor asylum-seeker from Pakistan, between 23 June and 23 August 2016.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Was the applicant deprived of his liberty in breach of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention (see, mutatis mutandis, X.Y. v. Hungary, no. 43888/08, §§ 11 and 28, 19 March 2013)? In particular, was the applicant’s detention between 23 June and 23 August 2016 maintained “in accordance with a procedure prescribed by law”?
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