The Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights to which the case C.O.C.G. and Others v. Lithuania, no. 17764/22, had been allocated has relinquished jurisdiction in favour of the Grand Chamber of the Court.

The case concerns allegations by Cuban nationals of their summary return (pushback) at the Lithuanian-Belarusian border without giving them an opportunity to submit asylum applications and their subsequent deprivation of liberty in a centre for asylum seekers. The applicants also claim that Lithuania failed to comply with an interim measure indicated by the Court.

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