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When informal means illegal: Italian interior ministry guilty of pushbacks to Slovenia
26 January 2021
A court in Rome has ruled that “informal readmissions” from Italy to Slovenia are unlawful, in a case concerning a Pakistani asylum seeker who was subjected to a series of violent pushbacks stretching from Italy to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Informal readmissions unlawful
A ruling by Rome tribunal (personal rights and immigration section) on 18 January 2021 declared the practice of informal readmissions from Italy to Slovenia that have intensified since the spring of 2020 to be unlawful,
Altreconomia reports.
The ruling concerned a case brought by lawyers Caterina Bove and Anna Brambilla on behalf of a Pakistani asylum seeker who was sent back from Italy after reaching Trieste, and who ended up living in destitution in Sarajevo in a case involving serial pushbacks.