M.A. AND OTHERS v. BULGARIA - 5115/18 (Judgment : Struck out of the list : Fifth Section)

Art 2 and Art 3 • Expulsion • Lack of effective guarantees against refoulement to China of Muslim Uighurs at risk of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment and death • Domestic authorities� approach offering no guarantees of rigorous assessment of the relevant risks

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 � 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

��������� S�ofra O�Leary, President, ��������� Ganna Yudkivska, ��������� Yonko Grozev, ��������� Mārtiņ� Mits, ��������� Lәtif H�seynov, ��������� Lado Chanturia, ��������� Anja Seibert-Fohr, judges, and Milan Bla�ko, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application against the Republic of Bulgaria lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by five Chinese nationals, Mr M.A. (�the first applicant�), Mr. A.N. (�the second applicant�), Mr Y.M. (�the third applicant�), Mr S.H. (�the fourth applicant�), and Mr A.A. (�the fifth applicant�) (together �the applicants�), on 26 January 2018;