The Court of Justice of the European Union has judged that refugee status cannot be automatically refused for having been a member of a terrorist group. The following summary is from ECRE – European Council on Refugees and Exiles (www.ecre.org): “In its ruling on 9 November in combined cases C-57/09 and C-101/09, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared that being a former member of a terrorist group does not automatically mean that the person should be excluded from being a refugee. This decision depends on an assessment of the specific facts of the case and whether the…