The National Court for the Right of Asylum (CNDA) has just granted asylum to Ukrainian nationals from regions located at the heart of the armed conflict with Russia, a conflict whose degree of violence justifies, according to him, “the granting of international protection”. to interested people.
The CNDA “has just granted asylum to Ukrainian citizens from the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Kharkiv, Lugansk and Zaporijjia”, without specifying the number of people affected, as reported this Saturday in a press release.
“It is clear that these regions are currently experiencing a situation of indiscriminate violence of exceptional intensity due to the armed conflict between Russian and Ukrainian forces. This situation justifies granting international protection to Ukrainian applicants from these regions,” he explains.
Requests made before the start of the Russian invasion
The Court had received applications for international protection from Ukrainian citizens originating from these four regions, submitted before the offensive of Russian troops on February 24, 2022. Therefore, they did not benefit from the temporary European protection granted to Ukrainians who left your country after the start. of the conflict
This “considered that the applicants could not benefit from refugee status under the Geneva Convention of July 28, 1951”, but granted them “the benefit of subsidiary protection that allows the protection of civilians in the event of a situation of conflict of the international armed forces as the conflict prevailing in these regions”.
Subsidiary protection is international protection provided to an asylum seeker who does not meet the criteria to become a refugee.
“A real risk of suffering a serious and individual threat” in case of return
The Tribunal explains that it “examined the situation as of the date on which it pronounces on the basis of the most recent public sources.” However, “this analysis led the asylum judge to consider that the current situation in the regions of Donetsk, Kharkiv, Lugansk and Zaporijjia, located in the east and south of Ukraine, reached a level of indiscriminate violence of ‘exceptional intensity’.
“This situation justifies the Court granting subsidiary protection to each of the applicants solely on the basis of their origin from the region in question.” “It considered that these applicants would run a real risk of suffering a serious and individual threat to their life or person if they returned to their region and that they would not be able to benefit from any effective protection from the authorities.”
Source: BFM TV
