CAT/C/46/D/399/2009
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: Restricted*
1 July 2011
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Forty-sixth session
9 May–3 June 2011
Decision
Communication No. 399/2009
Submitted by:
F.M-M. (represented by counsel, Bureau de
conseil pour les Africains francophones de la
Suisse (Office of Counsel for Frenchspeaking Africans in Switzerland)
(BUCOFRAS))
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
9 September 2009 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
26 May 2011
Subject matter:
Expulsion of the complainant to the Republic
of the Congo
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Non-refoulement
Articles of the Convention:
3, 22, paragraph (b)
Rules of Procedure:
107 (e)
[Annex]
* Made public by decision of the Committee against Torture.
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