CAT/C/65/D/756/2016 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Advance unedited version Distr.: General 19 December 2018 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 756/2016 *, ** Communication submitted by: Mr. T. T. P. (represented by counsel Mr. John Phillip Sweeney) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Australia Date of complaint: 25 May 2016 (initial submission) Document references: Decision taken pursuant to rule 115 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to the State party on 28 June 2016 Date of the present decision: 14 November 2018 Subject matter: Deportation to Vietnam Procedural issues: Lack of substantiation of claims; non-exhaustion of domestic remedies; incompatibility with the Convention Substantive issues: Risk to life and risk of torture or ill-treatment in the event of deportation to country of origin Article of the Convention: 3 Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-fifth session (12 November – 7 December 2018). The following members of the Committee have participated in the consideration of the communication: Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang. * ** GE.18-16384(E) 

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