Uitspraak
RECHTBANK DEN HAAG
[eiseres 1] ,
de staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie,
Procesverloop
Overwegingen
Aswat v. the United Kingdom(no. 17299/12, § 49, 16 April 2013), the Court reached a different conclusion, finding that the applicant’s extradition to the United States, where he was being prosecuted for terrorist activities, would entail ill‑treatment, in particular because the conditions of detention in the maximum security prison where he would be placed were liable to aggravate his paranoid schizophrenia. The Court held that the risk of significant deterioration in the applicant’s mental and physical health was sufficient to give rise to a breach of Article 3 of the Convention (ibid., § 57).
mutatis mutandis,
El-Masri v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia[GC], no. 39630/09, § 182, ECHR 2012;
Tarakhel, cited above, § 104; and
F.G. v. Sweden, cited above, § 117).
Saadi, cited above, § 129, and
F.G. v. Sweden, cited above, § 120). In this connection it should be observed that a certain degree of speculation is inherent in the preventive purpose of Article 3 and that it is not a matter of requiring the persons concerned to provide clear proof of their claim that they would be exposed to proscribed treatment (see, in particular,
Trabelsi v. Belgium, no. 140/10, § 130, ECHR 2014 (extracts)).
Saadi, cited above, § 129, and
F.G. v. Sweden, cited above, § 120). The risk alleged must be subjected to close scrutiny (see
Saadi,cited above, § 128;
Sufi and Elmi v. the United Kingdom, nos. 8319/07 and 11449/07, § 214, 28 June 2011;
Hirsi Jamaa and Others, cited above, § 116; and
Tarakhel, cited above, § 104) in the course of which the authorities in the returning State must consider the foreseeable consequences of removal for the individual concerned in the receiving State, in the light of the general situation there and the individual’s personal circumstances (see
Vilvarajah and Others, cited above, § 108;
El-Masri, cited above, § 213; and
Tarakhel, cited above, § 105). The assessment of the risk as defined above (see paragraphs 183-84) must therefore take into consideration general sources such as reports of the World Health Organisation or of reputable non-governmental organisations and the medical certificates concerning the person in question.
Aswat, cited above, § 55, and
Tatar, cited above, §§ 47-49) and referred to the need to consider the cost of medication and treatment, the existence of a social and family network, and the distance to be travelled in order to have access to the required care (see
Karagoz v. France(dec.), no. 47531/99, 15 November 2001;
N. v. the United Kingdom, cited above, §§ 34-41, and the references cited therein; and
E.O. v. Italy(dec.), cited above).
Tarakhel, cited above, § 120).”