Court name: Supreme Court (Areios Pagos)
State: Greece
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This case concerns an extradition request from Germany to Greece regarding a stateless person accused of several crimes in Germany. The Greek Supreme Court found that the extradition of a stateless person is not prohibited under the European Convention on Extradition and the national legislation.

Court name: First Instance Court of Athens (multi-member)
State: Greece
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The case concerns the applicable legislation under Greek private international law for divorce proceedings regarding a couple of Iranian nationality residing in Greece as asylum seekers. The court found that asylum seekers and refugees cannot be treated as stateless and therefore the legislation of their country of origin is applicable in divorce proceedings. The court postponed the issuance of a final decision until the applicant submits information on Iranian law on divorce to the court.

Court name: Administrative Court of Appeals
State: Greece
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The court rejected the asylum application of an applicant claiming inter alia that his statelessness had had an impact on his life. The court ruled that his claims were vague and inconsistent.

Court name: Council of the State
State: Greece
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The court held that voluntary renunciation of Greek nationality is not solely dependent on the will of the person concerned but is also subject to the prior approval by the State, in order to, inter alia, avoid statelessness.

Court name: Council of the State
State: Greece
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The case concerns the rejection of the application for international protection from an applicant who is from Bangladesh and claims to be stateless. The Council of the State held that, given that the applicant had initially been registered as a national of Bangladesh and only mentioned that he was stateless for the first time before the court, the decision to reject his asylum application was sufficiently reasoned in that part. However, the part of the decision ordering the applicant to depart Greece voluntarily within three months had not taken into consideration the fact that he suffered from serious health issues, and thus could be considered eligible for the issuance of a residence permit for humanitarian reasons.

Court name: Council of State
State: Greece
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The case concerned the refusal to grant international protection to the applicant who had produced evidence that he was going to lose his nationality due to pending criminal proceedings against him in his country of nationality.