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Subsidiary protection: serious and individual threat to a civilian’s life or person by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict

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Jurisprudence

Article 15(c) QD

CJEU, Aboubacar Diakité v Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides, Case C-285/12, judgment of 30 January 2014, para. 35 (armed conflict)
CJEU, Meki Elgafaji and Noor Elgafaji v Staatssecretaris van Justitie, Case C-465/07, judgment of 17 February 2009, EU:C:2009:94, paras 32-33 (serious and individual threat); paras 34-35 (indiscriminate violence); para. 39 (‘sliding-scale’ test)
ECtHR, K.A.B. v. Sweden, Application No 886/11, judgment of 5 September 2013, paras 75-77 (indiscriminate violence)
ECtHR, Sufi and Elmi v. the United Kingdom, Applications Nos 8319/07 and 11449/07, judgment of 28 November 2011, para. 241 (indiscriminate violence)