CAT/C/66/D/797/2017 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 4 June 2019 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 797/2017*, ** Communication submitted by: M.B. (represented by counsel, Stephanie Motz) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Switzerland Date of complaint: 10 January 2017 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture upon deportation to Ethiopia At its meeting on 3 May 2019, the Committee, having been informed by counsel in October 2018 and November 2018 that she was unable to contact the author, and not having received a response to a request for an update from counsel, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 797/2017. * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-sixth session (23 April–17 May 2019). ** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang. Mr. Hani expressed reservations about the decision, without entering an individual opinion pursuant to rule 119 of the Committee’s rules of procedure. GE.19-09070(E) 

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