The applicants, Abdisamad Adow Sufi and Abdiaziz Ibrahim Elmi are Somali nationals who were born in 1987 and 1969, respectively. They are both currently in detention in an Immigration Detention Centre. Both cases concern the applicants’ allegation that if returned to Somalia they would be at real risk of ill-treatment. Mr Sufi, a member of a minority clan, the Reer Hamar, alleges that he has been persecuted and seriously injured by the Hawiye milita, who have also killed his father and sister. Mr Elmi, who arrived in the United Kingdom at the age of 19, alleges that he would be seen as westernised and anti-Islamic and, if it were known that he was a drug addict with prior convictions for theft, would be at risk of being amputated or publicly flogged or killed.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)