FIRST SECTION DECISION Application no. 42387/13 K2 against the United Kingdom The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 7 February 2017 as a Chamber composed of: Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, President, Kristina Pardalos, Ledi Bianku, Aleš Pejchal, Robert Spano, Armen Harutyunyan, Pauliine Koskelo, judges, and Abel Campos, Section Registrar, Having regard to the above application lodged on 27 June 2013, Having regard to the applicant’s further submissions of 24 October 2016, Having deliberated, decides as follows: THE FACTS 1. The applicant, a Sudanese national referred to as K2 in the domestic proceedings, was born in Sudan in 1982 and currently resides there. He was represented before the Court by G. Peirce of Birnberg Peirce & Partners, a firm of solicitors practising in London. 2. The then President of the Section decided of her own motion that the applicant’s name should not be disclosed (Rule 47 § 4 of the Rules of Court).