Dutch court orders new assessment of safety in Syria
The Council of State has told the Dutch government to reassess safety conditions in Syria, saying humanitarian circumstances should have been considered in an earlier assessment, according to ANP.
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The Netherlands’ Council of State has ordered the government to reassess conditions in Syria when deciding whether parts of the country are safe for asylum seekers, according to a report by ANP carried by Nieuws.nl.
The ruling concerns an appeal by a Syrian asylum seeker. The court said the previous assessment, made after the fall of Syria’s former regime, should have taken humanitarian conditions into account, the report said. Asylum Minister Bart van den Brink must now reconsider the safety situation.
The report does not identify the case or give further details of the court’s reasoning. It says the former minister had judged some parts of Syria safe.
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