Auszug aus EGMR, 08.02.2000 - 40907/98

As regards the substance of the complaint, the Court recalls that, under its case-law, the expulsion of an asylum-seeker may engage a Contracting Party's responsibility under Article 3 of the Convention where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that the person concerned faces a real risk of being subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (the Vilvarajah and Others v. the United Kingdom judgment of 30 October 1991, Series A no. 215, p. 34, § 102).