CCPR/C/125/D/2373/2014
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
18 April 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the
Optional Protocol, concerning communication No.
2373/2014*, **
Communication submitted by:
I.K. (represented by counsel, Helge Nørrung)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Denmark
Date of communication:
26 February 2014 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 97 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 3 April 2014 (not issued in
document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
18 March 2019
Subject matter:
Author’s deportation from Denmark to
Afghanistan
Procedural issues:
Inadmissibility as manifestly ill-founded;
inadmissibility ratione loci and ratione materiae;
level of substantiation of claims
Substantive issues:
Risk to life; risk of torture or other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
freedom of religion
Articles of the Covenant:
6, 7 and 18
Article of the Optional Protocol:
2
1.1
The author of the communication is I.K., 1 a national of Afghanistan born on 1
January 1996.2 He claims that he would be a victim of violation by Denmark of articles 6, 7
and 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights if he were deported to
Afghanistan. The author’s appeal against a negative decision on his application for asylum
in Denmark was rejected finally on 11 February 2014. His deportation to Afghanistan was
* Adopted by the Committee at its 125th session (4–29 March 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
1
2
communication: Tania María Abdo Rocholl, Yadh Ben Achour, Ilze Brands Kehris, Christopher Arif
Bulkan, Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Shuichi Furuya, Christof Heyns, Bamariam Koita, Duncan Laki
Muhumuza, Photini Pazartzis, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, Vasilka Sancin, José Manuel Santos Pais,
Yuval Shany, Hélène Tigroudja, Andreas Zimmermann and Gentian Zyberi.
The author requests that his identity be kept confidential.
The author was born in 1994, according to a disputed age test.
GE.19-06547(E)