Facts
A.A. (born 1983), an Afghan national, illegally entered Switzerland on 30 May 2016 together with her husband B.A. (born 1985) and their three children C.A. (born 2008), D.A. (born 2010) and E.A. (born 2013). The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) did not consider her asylum application and deported her to Norway. On 4 October 2016, A.A. and B.A. were arrested. A.A. was brought back to Zug with her family and accommodated with her four-month-old daughter in the airport prison in Zurich. B.A. remained in the deportation detention unit of the Zug penitentiary, and the three older children were placed in a children's home by the Child and Adult Protection Authority (KESB).Considerations
The applicants complained that the lower court had violated Art. 3 ECHR (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) and Art. 8 ECHR (right to respect for private and family life). The separate detention of the family members did not quite reach the threshold of inhuman or degrading treatment within the meaning of Art.…