CAT/C/48/D/393/2009
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
10 July 2012
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 393/2009
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-eighth session, 7 May to
1 June 2012
GE.12-43992
Submitted by:
E.T. (represented by counsel, Tarig Hassan)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
27 July 2009 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
23 May 2012
Subject matter:
Deportation of the complainant to Ethiopia
Procedural issue:
-
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon return to country of
origin
Article of the Convention:
3