Published on 30 May 2022

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 15860/22 Gulzar HUSSAIN against Denmark lodged on 18 March 2022 communicated on 9 May 2022

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicant is a Pakistani national who entered Denmark in 1974, when he was 24 years old. He is married and has two children. By an Appeal Court judgment of 20 June 2019, he was convicted of deprivation of liberty, assault and threats. He was sentenced to 3 years and 3 months’ imprisonment. By a judgment which became final on 14 February 2022, the applicant was convicted of similar crimes, committed before his conviction of 20 June 2019. As a supplementary penalty, he was sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment, and expelled from Denmark with a life-long ban on returning.

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

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Having regard, in particular, to the fact that the applicant has stayed legally in Denmark since 1974, and in total was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months’ imprisonment, would the order to expel him from the country with a permanent re-entry ban be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention (see, for example, Abdi v. Denmark , no. 41643/19, 14 September 2021)?