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01/09/2025
Émilie Pottle and Sebastian Bates (instructed by Noam Almaz of Stokoe Partnership Solicitors) have been acting before the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concerning the extradition of Katerina Yaneva from the United Kingdom.
Ms Yaneva is the subject of an extradition request from the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Burgas, Bulgaria. She has turned to the Strasbourg Court and the Committee following the High Court’s judgment in Yaneva v Bulgarian Judicial Authority [2025] EWHC 803 (Admin) and its subsequent refusal of certification of a point of law of general public importance and permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Ms Yaneva is a single mother. She would be extradited alongside her infant son, who was born in the United Kingdom. Ms Yaneva is sought to serve the remaining part of a sentence of imprisonment at Sliven Prison, the sole women’s prison in Bulgaria. There is an increasing trend of inter-prisoner violence at that facility, against which the prison authorities are not taking reasonable steps and to which Ms Yaneva would be exposed if extradited.
Ms Yaneva has challenged the compatibility of the Bulgarian extradition request with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women before the Committee and argued before the Strasbourg Court that there was a procedural violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the extradition proceedings in the United Kingdom and this provision would be violated in the event of her extradition.
