Dutch judge refuses to send asylum seeker back to Belgium due to risk of “inhumane treatment” | VRT NWS: news

A Dutch judge has refused to send a Chinese asylum seeker back to Belgium out of concerns he could face inhumane treatment at the hands of the Belgian authorities. The Chinese national applied for asylum in the Netherlands last summer, but it soon emerged he had already applied in Belgium. As a result his application couldn’t be processed by the Dutch authorities. Under European rules he was supposed to be sent back to Belgium. The Chinese appealed against that decision pointing to the lack of c