- Denial of the right to return or refusal to re-enter one’s country of habitual residence,
for a Convention reason, amounts to persecution;
- The inability freely to leave and freely to re-enter one’s country’s on discriminatory
grounds amounts to persecution, without requiring that widespread and systematic
discriminatory treatment be shown;
- Give the applicant the benefit of the doubt and treat him or her as either a national of
his/her country of origin or as a stateless person if, for any reason, this treatment
should be more favourable to him or her;
- Reasons for persecution of stateless persons to include all five grounds listed in the
Convention, namely, race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social
group or political opinion.
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