Order of the Court of Genova, IX Civil Section, 13 May 2016

The Court of Genova annulled the decision of the competent Territorial Commission on the recognition of international protection, which denied any kind of international protection to a national of Ghana seeking asylum in Italy. The Court observed that the applicant had made a detailed and credible account of the circumstances for which he was believed to be homosexual by the police authorities and members of his family in Ghana, where homosexual people are heavily discriminated. There was, therefore, the objective and concrete fear that he would be persecuted, in case of repatriation, as being a member of a particular social group in the meaning of Article 1.2 of the 1951 Geneva Convention.