CAT/C/65/D/859/2018
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
11 January 2019
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 859/2018*, **
Communication submitted by:
A.M. (represented
Ahlstrand)
by
counsel,
Rebecca
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Sweden
Date of complaint:
15 January 2018 (initial submission)
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon deportation to Pakistan
At its meeting on 15 November 2018, the Committee, having ascertained that the
complainant had submitted a new pending asylum application in Sweden, and that the
expulsion order against him in Sweden had become time-barred, decided to discontinue the
consideration of communication No. 859/2018, on the understanding that the complainant
would be entitled to submit a new communication to it in the event of a renewed risk of
forcible removal from the State party’s territory.
* Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-fifth session (12 November–7 December 2018).
** 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 disassociated himself from the decision.
GE.19-00445(E)