Yang Chun Jin alias Yang Xiaolin v. Hungary

Information Note on the Court’s case-law 28

March 2001

Yang Chun Jin alias Yang Xiaolin v. Hungary - 58073/00

Judgment 8.3.2001 [Section II]

Article 3

Extradition

Threatened extradition to China, with alleged risk of exposure to ill-treatment: struck out

Article 6

Criminal proceedings

Article 6-1

Fair hearing

Threatened extradition to China, with alleged risk of summary trial: struck out

Article 1 of Protocol No. 6

Abolition of the death penalty

Threatened extradition to China, with alleged risk of summary trial: struck out

The case concerned the threatened extradition of the applicant to China, where he claimed that he risked being ill-treated, tried summarily and sentenced to death.

The Hungarian Minister of Justice has decided to refuse China's request to extradite the applicant, who has left Hungary for Sierra Leone and is not opposed to the application being struck out.

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