Published on 9 May 2022

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 35740/21 Mohamad Mustafa Hamid AL-MASUDI against Denmark lodged on 15 July 2021 communicated on 19 April 2022

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicant is an Iraqi who entered Denmark when he was 3 years old. By a judgment which became final on 22 January 2021, the applicant was convicted of drug offences and for being in possession of a rifle. He was sentenced to 2 years and 9 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 was sentenced to 2 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)?