{"id":4203,"date":"2025-01-15T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2025\/01\/case-of-kunshugarov-v-turkiye\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:54:08","slug":"case-of-kunshugarov-v-turkiye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2025\/01\/case-of-kunshugarov-v-turkiye\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE OF KUNSHUGAROV v. T\u00dcRK\u0130YE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This judgment concerns the case of a Kazakhstani national who faced extradition from Turkey to Kazakhstan, where he was wanted for alleged terrorism-related offenses.The key aspects of the decision are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court found that Turkey violated Article 3 of the Convention by extraditing the applicant to Kazakhstan without adequately examining the risk of ill-treatment he would face there, particularly given his profile as a terrorism suspect<\/li>\n<li>The Court found no violation of Article 13 in conjunction with Article 2 regarding the risk of death penalty, as Kazakhstan had provided sufficient assurances<\/li>\n<li>The Court found violations of Article 3 regarding poor detention conditions and Article 5\u00a74 due to lack of speedy review of detention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main provisions of the decision include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diplomatic assurances from Kazakhstan were deemed insufficient to eliminate the risk of ill-treatment, being too general and lacking practical verification mechanisms<\/li>\n<li>The Turkish authorities failed to conduct a rigorous assessment of the specific risks faced by terrorism suspects in Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>The Constitutional Court&#8217;s 3-year delay in reviewing detention was found to violate the requirement for speedy judicial review<\/li>\n<li>Poor conditions at the Kumkapi Removal Centre constituted degrading treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most important aspects for implementation are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>States must conduct thorough individual assessments of risks before extradition, especially for terrorism suspects<\/li>\n<li>Diplomatic assurances must be specific, verifiable and practically effective<\/li>\n<li>Constitutional Court review of detention must be conducted speedily<\/li>\n<li>Detention conditions must meet basic standards regardless of immigration pressures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/?i=001-238786\"><strong>Full text by link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This judgment concerns the case of a Kazakhstani national who faced extradition from Turkey to Kazakhstan, where he was wanted for alleged terrorism-related offenses.The key aspects of the decision are: The Court found that Turkey violated Article 3 of the Convention by extraditing the applicant to Kazakhstan without adequately examining the risk of ill-treatment he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-echr-decisions","category-eu-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}