Information Note on the Court’s case-law 234

November 2019

Johansen v. Denmark (communicated case) - 27801/19

Article 8

Expulsion

Deprivation of citizenship and expulsion of dual national convicted of having joined Islamic State’s ranks with terrorist objectives: communicated

The applicant was born in Denmark of a Danish mother and a Tunisian father; he had both Danish and Tunisian c itizenship. In October 2017 he was convicted for having joined Islamic State with the purpose of committing terrorist crimes and was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. In November 2019, unlike the lower courts, the Supreme Court accepted the prosecutio n’s request that the applicant’s Danish citizenship be withdrawn, and that he be expelled from Denmark.

Communicated under Article 8 of the Convention.

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