(CN) — After months on the streets with nowhere to go, a group of four asylum-seekers in Belgium took their fight to Europe’s human rights court on Thursday with a simple question: What happens when a government ignores its own laws?
They were asking for something basic: A place to sleep already promised by the law. When national court orders granting that right went nowhere, they turned to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing the state had failed to protect their dignity in violation of the convention underpinning the court.
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