This case requires the European Court of Human Rights to consider for the first time the question of whether a Council of Europe member State may expel a man who is genuinly married to another man (or a woman married to another woman) if the expelled individual would face a real risk of treatment violating Article 3 in his (or her) country of origin if he (or she) were to speak publicly about his sexual orientation and same-sex marriage.
FIDH third-party intervention: case of a married gay Libyan asylum seeker in Sweden facing torture in Libya
Today, FIDH, jointly with ICJ and ILGA-Europe, submitted written comments in the case M.E. v. Sweden, concerning a Libyan national who, unsuccessfully, applied for asylum in Sweden, after requesting for a residence permit in Sweden on the basis of his marriage to another man.