Communicated on 1 April 2020 Published on 25 May 2020

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 40240/19 Cihan AVCI against Denmark lodged on 4 July 2019

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicant is a Turkish national, born in 1993 in Denmark. By a judgment which became final on 8 March 2019, the applicant was convicted of drug offences. He was sentenced to 4 years ’ imprisonment, and expelled from Denmark with a life-long ban on returning.

The applicant complained that the order expelling him from Denmark was in breach of Article 8 of the Convention.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Having regard, in particular, to the fact that the applicant was born in Denmark, would the implementation of the order to expel him from the count r y be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention?