CAT/C/63/D/744/2016 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Advance unedited version Distr.: General 13 August 2018 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning Communication No. Communication No. 744/2016 **’** * ** Submitted by: H.A. (represented by counsel, Viktoria Nyström) Alleged victim(s): The complainant State party: Sweden Date of complaint: 8 April 2016 (initial submission) Date of adoption of decision: 11 May 2018 Subject matter: Deportation to Iraq Substantive issue(s): Non-refoulement Procedural issue(s): Examination by another procedure of international investigation or settlement, level of substantiation of claims Article(s) of the Convention: 3 Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-third session (23 April – 18 May 2018). The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller-Rouassant, Ana Racu, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang GE.18-03928(E) 

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