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International Journal of Refugee Law , 2014, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1–24 doi:10.1093/ijrl/eeu019 © The Author (2014). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions please email: journals.permissions@ oup.com • 1 Caught in Limbo: How Alleged Perpetrators of International Crimes who Applied for Asylum in the Netherlands are Affected by a Fundamental System Error in International Law Joke Reijven & Joris van Wijk * Hier gepubliceerd: http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/19/ijrl.eeu019.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=LdXr22acW9msDQv

Merrill Smith, Advisor to the Fahamu Refugee Trust, contributed this article highlighting the usefulness of the Bangkok Principles. The Bangkok Principles. Never heard of them? Don’t feel too bad. Many seasoned refugee advocates haven’t either but they should soon, so now might be a good Nme to read up! The 1966 Bangkok Principles on the Status and Treatment of Refugees, or ‘Bangkok Principles’, are a product of the Asian‐African Legal Consultave Organization (AALCO), an international governmental body based in New Delhi. It was originally known as the Asian Legal Consultative Committee and formed shortly after the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia, one of the formative meetings of the Non‐Aligned Movement of less developed States that sought to steer a neutral path during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. AALCO currently has 47 Member States in Africa, Asia and the Middle East,including — notably for our purposes — the following 23 that are not party ...

Asylum can be granted to a person who does not hold a political belief where this could lead to persecution, the Supreme Court has ruled in a case that potentially affects thousands of Zimbabwean refugees. In KM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSC 38, seven justices considered whether asylum seekers without any particular political opinions should be required to lie and feign support for the Zanu-pf regime of President Robert Mugabe in order to avoid persecution. The appellant, KM’s son, had previously been granted asylum in the UK on the grounds he was a sympathiser of the opposing party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and feared for his life from the Zanu-pf militia. The secretary of state argued that KM could avoid persecution by lying about his views and pretending to support Mugabe. However, the court unanimously allowed KM’s appeal to stay in the UK, and found that the HJ (Iran) principle, which concerns sexual orientation, also ...

Enige weken geleden boog het hoogste Engelse gerechtshof zich over de vraag of iemand gevaar kon lopen bij terugkeer naar Zimbabwe omdat hij niet actief mee wilde doen in de pro-president activiteiten daar. Het werd een dagenlange zitting die kon worden gevolgd op internet en waar de centrale vraag was waartegen nou het Vluchtelingenverdrag bescherming biedt. Asylum seekers should not have to feign political beliefs, court rules Extradition appeal by home secretary dismissed because of campaign of persecution against political neutrals in Zimbabwe Supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF. Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent    Asylum seekers should not be expected or required to lie about their political beliefs, the supreme court has ruled in a decision likely to make it more difficult to deport asylum seekers to Zimbabwe. In a unanimous judgment the court dismissed an appeal by the home secreta...

Meisje heeft meegedaan aan het verjagen van blanke boeren en hun personeel van boerderijen in Zimbabwe en vraagt later asiel in Engeland aan. De vraag die aan de orde komt is of dit gedrag valt onder "Crime against humanity of other inhumane acts". Zoals altijd bij Britse uitspraken is het veel uitgebreider gemotiveerd dan bij een Raad van State uitspraak. Dus ik adviseer u allen om de hele uitspraak te lezen die u hier vindt http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/807.html. Wat mij opvalt is dat de vraag of haar gedrag onder misdaden tegen de mensheid valt wordt onderbouwd door uitspraken van het Joegoslavie Tribunaal en het Internationaal Strafhof. De rechters concluderen: "Mr Hermer submitted, nevertheless, that the troubles on the farms in Zimbabwe have not been internationally recognised as crimes against humanity, and that it is the affront to the whole of the international community and to its conscience that is the hall-mark of such crimes. He sought t...