We regularly represent clients who risk the death penalty in the event of deportation to their home country.
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We regularly represent clients who risk torture in the event of deportation to their home country. In recent years, we have submitted over 50 complaints to the UN Committee against Torture and the UN Human Rights Committee.
In its decision, The U.N. Committee against Torture, finds that Swedish migration authorities have failed in their obligation to make an individualized assessment of the personal and real risk that the complainant would face in Afghanistan. Failure to evaluate the evidence presented in the case, including his dissemination of the Christian message on social media, failure to take into account his cultural and educational background, failure to obtain and include in his assessment independent medical evidence of his health condition, failure to consider the evidence in combination and failure to correctly assess the answers from the applicant, especially the evidence that has been used to form the basis for the credibility assessment. According to the Committee, all these factors contributed to the decision.
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We regularly represent clients who have been victims of human trafficking and forced labour
Scandinavian human rights lawyers represent Joy, who survived human trafficking for sexual purposes, and her little son. Joy was only 15 years old when she was sold as a sex slave to Greece. She was severely beaten, raped and forced to sell her body during horrific circumstances, guarded by five pimps around the clock. She became pregnant with one of the traffickers and fled to Sweden to seek asylum. In 2013, the Swedish Migration Agency decided to deport her and her little son despite the enormous risk of re-trafficking. After we lost the case in several proceedings in Swedish courts, we brought a complaint to the UN Committee Against Torture(CAT)and claimed that the decision of expulsion constituted a violation of human rights and the Convention against Torture. Finally, the UN committee decided to stop deportation and now, after a renewed asylum investigation, the family has been granted asylum and international protection in Sweden.
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We regularly represent clients at international human rights bodies to ensure a fair and law-abiding judicial process within a reasonable time.
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We represent individuals whose right to respect for their private and family life has been violated by public authorities.
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Chief Lawyer Ruth Nordström and Attorney Jörgen Olson have represented a father, Olof Hulling, whose son, at the age of two, acquired a brain injury due to a malpractice and overdose of morphine in connection with a surgery. Orust municipality has since then decided to medicate the son against the father's will and in violation of an agreement that the medication would be discontinued if it was not beneficial to the son. The Orust municipality has been.
We represent clients whose right to freedom of thought, conscience and / or religion has been violated.
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We represent clients whoright to freedom of expression has been violated.
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The UN Human Rights Committee has decided to stop the deportation of Mostafa, who risks the death penalty and torture during deportation to Afghanistan, because he converted from Islam to Christianity. Mostafa has tattooed JESUS and a cross on his neck. The Swedish Migration Agency claims that Mostafa is not a Christian and that he can "easily" "hide" his tattoo in Afghanistan when he is deported there. We claim in the complaint that the decision to refuse Mostafa protection under the Aliens Act was manifestly arbitrary and a denial of justice and in violation of the provisions on the prohibition of torture and the right to religious freedom and expression in the UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention.
We represent clients at international bodies, in cases where there is a lack of an effective national remedy.
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Everyone whose rights and freedoms as set forth in this Convention are violated shall have an effective remedy before a national authority notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity.
We represent clients whose rights and opportunities have been violated because of their religion or other beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, disability, or age.
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The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.
According to Article 14 of the European Convention, the freedoms and rights enshrined in the European Convention must be guaranteed to everyone without discrimination on grounds of sex, race, color, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, affiliation to national minority, wealth, birth or position in general. Equal cases should be treated equally. The article does not imply a general prohibition of discrimination, but it does prohibit discrimination in the treatment of the freedoms and rights guaranteed by the European Convention. The article is thus applied in conjunction with any of the other freedoms and rights and not as an independent basis.
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