Judgment_paragraph 63 · X v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-69/21)

63In that regard, it follows from the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights that Article 3 ECHR precludes the removal of a seriously ill person where he or she is at risk of imminent death or where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that, although not at imminent risk of dying, he or she would face a real risk, on account of the absence of appropriate treatment in the receiving country or the lack of access to such treatment, of suffering a serious, rapid and irreversible decline in his or her state of health resulting in intense pain or a significant reduction in life expectancy (see, to that effect, judgment in Paposhvili, §§ 178 and 183, and judgment of 24 April 2018, MP (Subsidiary protection of a victim of past torture), C‑353/16, EU:C:2018:276, paragraph 40).