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The Ancona Court of Appeal grants international protection for humanitarian reasons to an Albanian applican
The Ancona Court of Appeal grants international protection for humanitarian reasons to an Albanian applicant, who had been denied at first instance. The decision has great importance as it recognizes that forms of customary justice, such as the phenomenon of blood feud according to the ancient Kanun code, may be grounds for seeking international protection.
Moreover the sentence explicity recognizes the existence and the social danger of a phenomenon that “attributes to the family members of the victim of the murder […] two possible sanctions, or the physical elimination of the killer, or the inhuman treatment of self-isolation at home and hence the “social” elimination of the person to be punished”.
From meltingpot an insight into the decision
