Published on 24 April 2023

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 14171/23 Hamza Azeem Thamer AL-HABEEB against Denmark lodged on 31 March 2023 communicated on 5 April 2023

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The applicant is an Iraqi national. He entered Denmark when he was 7 years old. By a High Court judgment which became final on 20 December 2022, the applicant was convicted of aggravated assault. He was sentenced to 2 years and 3 months’ imprisonment and his expulsion from Denmark was ordered with a 12 ‑ year re ‑ entry ban. He has a partner and a daughter born in March 2021.

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 3 months’ imprisonment and has a family of his own, would the order to expel him from the country with a 12-year re-entry ban be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention (see, for example, Abdi v. Denmark , no. 41643/19, 14 September 2021)?