Denmark: Fear of refoulement

Index Number: EUR 18/001/1996
Date Published: 20 May 1996
Categories: Denmark, Europe And Central Asia

Anna Mkrtychan and Alexander Mkrtychan: The above, an English teacher, interpreter and philologist, and her husband, a dentist, both ethnic Armenians from Chechnya, face forcible return to the Russian Federation on 28 May 1996 where they may be at serious risk of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment or torture. Their applications for asylum in Denmark were rejected on appeal and they have been issued with a deportation order to return to Moscow.