Published on 9 May 2022

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 9588/21 Martin Treesh WINTHER against Denmark lodged on 28 January 2021 communicated on 19 April 2022

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicant is a Syrian national. He entered Denmark at the age of 20. By a final Supreme Court judgment of 14 August 2020, the applicant was convicted of, inter alia, assault with aggravating circumstances. He was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment and expelled from Denmark with a 6 ‑ year re ‑ entry ban. He had a partner and two children in Denmark.

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 8 months’ imprisonment, would the order to expel him from the country with a 6-year re-entry ban be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention (see, for example, Veljkovic-Jukic v. Switzerland , no. 59534/14, 21 July 2020)?