235. Risk of Article 3 treatment in deportation, extradition and administrative removal.

While the European Convention on Human Rights recognises that states have a general right to control the entry, residence and removal of aliens from their territory¹, states are prohibited from removing persons to the territory of another state where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that the person concerned faces a real risk of being subjected to Article 3 treatment² in the destination state³. In such a case the Article 3 prohibition imposes an obligation not to deport the person in question to that country⁴. This obligation does not involve adjudicating on the receiving country's compliance with the