CAT/C/66/D/766/2016 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 27 June 2019 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 766/2016*, ** Communication submitted by: S.R. (represented by counsel, John Sweeney) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Australia Date of complaint: 27 July 2016 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture and ill-treatment upon deportation to Sri Lanka At its meeting on 3 May 2019, the Committee, having received no comments from the complainant’s counsel on the State party’s observations on the merits, despite a reminder to provide such comments, and taking into account that the counsel had subsequently withdrawn the complaint as he had lost contact with the complainant, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 766/2016. * 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. GE.19-10799(E) 

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