FOURTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 7338/16 Benty Yasmine CHALOUB and Latifa Moussoukoura CAMARA against the Netherlands

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 15 October 2020 as a Committee composed of:

Armen Harutyunyan, President, Jolien Schukking, Ana Maria Guerra Martins, judges, and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 3 February 2016,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The first applicant, Mrs Benty Yasmine Chaloub, was born in 1984. She is the mother of the second applicant, Ms Latifa Moussoukoura Camara, who was born in 2013. Both applicants are nationals of Guinea and live in Rotterdam. They were represented by Ms M.M. Polman, a lawyer practising in Rotterdam.

The applicants’ complaint under Article 3 of the Convention that, if they were removed to Guinea, there was a real risk that the second applicant would be subjected to female genital mutilation and that the first applicant would be forced to undergo re-circumcision, was communicated to the Dutch Government (“the Government”).

After the Government had been given notice of the application on 15 December 2017, they informed the Court that on 29 July 2020 they had granted the applicants a residence permit pursuant to Article 8 of the Convention ( verblijfsvergunning conform artikel 8 EVRM ), valid from 12 August 2019 to 15 June 2023. On this basis, the Government requested the Court to strike the case out of the list of pending cases.

On 18 September 2020 the applicant’s representative informed the Court that the applicants wanted to withdraw the application.

THE LAW

In view of the above, the Court considers that the matter has been resolved within the meaning of Article 37 § 1 (b) of the Convention and that respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto does not require it to continue the examination of the application under Article 37 § 1 in fine .

Accordingly, the application should be struck out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.

Done in English and notified in writing on 5 November 2020.

Liv Tigerstedt Armen Harutyunyan Acting Deputy Registrar President