7.  The applicants, a woman and her two children, were born in 1975, 1995 and 2004 respectively. 8.  On 21 May 2007 they arrived in Sweden and applied for asylum. The first applicant’s husband and their sons were at the time already in Sweden, where they had applied for asylum in 2005 but had not yet received a final decision in their case. Before the Migration Board (Migrationsverket) the first applicant alleged that the main reason why she and her children had left Afghanistan was that her family had been persecuted by the Taliban, with whom her husband had been in conflict for several years. When her husband had left the country, the threats that had formerly been directed against him had instead been aimed against her and her eldest daughter. She further claimed that the situation in Afghanistan, particularly for women, was very difficult. On 23 September 2007, after their asylum application had been rejected by the Swedish authorities, her husband and their two sons had been deported to Kabul. Before the Board the first applicant maintained that she was not aware of their whereabouts after the deportation. 9.  On 22 January 2008 the Migration Board rejected the applicants’ asylum claim and ordered that they be deported to Afghanistan. Concluding that the information given by the first applicant was contradictory and lacking in detail, the Board did not find her story credible. The Board further held that her husband’s asylum claim had been rejected and that there was no reason to make another assessment regarding the individual circumstances in the applicants’ case. While the general security situation prevented the applicants from returning to the province where they had lived before leaving Afghanistan, the Board held that they were able to settle in two other provinces, where the first applicant had previously lived, or in Kabul, where they would reunite with the other family members. 10.  On 30 June 2008 the Migration Court (Migrationsdomstolen) upheld the Board’s decision. On 8 September 2008 the Migration Court of Appeal (Migrationsöverdomstolen) refused leave to appeal. The deportation order against the applicants thereby acquired legal force. 11.  Subsequently, the applicants applied to the Migration Board for a review of the enforcement of the deportation order, claiming that there were impediments to their enforcement. On 19 November 2008 the Board refused to review the case, finding that no new circumstances warranting a review had been forthcoming. This decision was upheld by the Migration Court on 23 December 2008. Two further requests for review of enforcement were subsequently refused, leave to appeal in the later proceedings being refused by the Migration Court of Appeal on 11 June 2010.