Information Note on the Court’s case-law 37

December 2001

K.K.C. v. the Netherlands - 58964/00

Judgment 21.12.2001 [Section I]

Article 3

Expulsion

Threatened deportation of Chechen to Russia: friendly settlement

The applicant claims that while serving in the Chechen army, he was arrested, detained and accused of treason for having refused to obey an order to open fire on Chechen opposition forces. He escaped and fled to the Netherlands, where he was refused asylum. The Dutch courts considered that there was nothing to prevent the applicant from settling elsewhere in the Russian Federation.

The parties have reached a friendly settlement providing for t he granting of an unrestricted residence permit and payment of € 1,400 in respect of legal costs.

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