The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a habeas corpus ad subjiciendum demand for release filed by an international protection applicant, who had admitted various crimes, including murder, to the police.

The applicant told an immigration officer that he had murdered women in 2021 and had committed various other crimes in his country, as a member of a secret organisation.

The Law Office said on Friday that the Supreme Court cited EU court case law, saying that the detention of an asylum seeker or applicant for international protection status is allowed only in the name of protecting the national security of the state or to protect the rights and freedoms of third parties and public order.

In this case, it added, the applicant, who appears to have entered the south through the north, had requested the privileged order for an allegedly “unjustified long period of detention”, which however was the result of a remand order issued for security reasons, as he was deemed as a person dangerous to public order, due to the nature and severity of the crimes he related.

“The right of the applicant to effective judicial protection cannot but be examined in connection with the protection of the state’s national security and the detention of a person, when this is necessary for the protection of national security or public order, is a measure convenient for the protection of the public from a possible danger, which the behaviour of the specific individual imposes […] for as long as the reasons determined are applicable […],” the court said.

The Supreme Court added that it did not appear that the authorities had acted in bad faith or had abandoned the reason for which the applicant was being detained, which is the protection of public order.

According to the Law Office of the Republic, the asylum service had excluded the applicant from the subsidiary protection status, as he was considered to have committed serious crimes, including conspiracy to commit murder, roaming while intoxicated with intent to commit a felony, premeditated murder, kidnapping or abduction or deprivation of freedom of a person with intent to kill and participation in a criminal organisation.

After being denied refugee status, the applicant appealed against the asylum service, which is pending before the administrative court for international protection.

Meanwhile, the authorities are regularly re-examining the applicant’s detention and is taking preliminary action to find a country for his deportation when the case in question becomes final.