Europe’s top human rights court has ruled that Cyprus violated the right of two Syrian nationals to seek asylum in the island nation after keeping them and around 28 other people aboard a boat at sea for two days before sending them back to Lebanon.
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The court also found that Cypriot authorities “caused the applicants considerable distress and feelings of humiliation of such a degree as to amount to degrading treatment,” because they hadn’t provided adequate food or water to all the passengers who had to sleep in the boat for two days without access to hygiene facilities.
The court also said that a Cypriot government argument that the cousins where returned to Lebanon under a bilateral agreement, which allows for the return of anyone entering Cyprus unlawfully “without any formality,” doesn’t absolve Cyprus of its obligations under the Convention of Human Rights, especially in light of Lebanon’s difficulty in coping with the estimated 1.5 million refugees that it hosts.
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