- Date of Incident
- 13 Aug 2014
- Location
- Melilla, Spain
- Forums
- Legal Process, Media
- In Partnership With
- European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
- Summary
- The case of ND and NT v. Spain was the first trial at the European Court of Human Rights to address pushbacks at Europe’s land borders. The Court’s decision to acquit Spain was based on a gross distortion of facts.
Using data from asylum applications and spatial analysis, we demonstrate that no legal routes to ask for protection are available to Black migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa.
