CCPR/C/126/D/2603/2015
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
18 November 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the
Optional Protocol, concerning communication
No. 2603/2015*, **, ***
Communication submitted by:
A.B.H. (represented by counsel, Dorte Smed, of
the Danish Refugee Council)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Denmark
Date of communication:
28 April 2015 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 97 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure (now rule 92),
transmitted to the State party on 30 April 2015
(not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
8 July 2019
Subject matter:
Author’s deportation from Denmark to
Afghanistan
Procedural issues:
Inadmissibility as manifestly ill-founded; level of
substantiation of claims
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture or other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment
Article of the Covenant:
7
Article of the Optional Protocol:
2
1.1
The author of the communication is A.B.H.,1 a national of Afghanistan born on 8
March 1977. He claims that he would be a victim of a violation by Denmark of article 7 of
the Covenant, if deported to Afghanistan. The author asked the Committee to request
* Adopted by the Committee at its 126th session (1−26 July 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Tania María Abdo Rocholl, Yadh Ben Achour, Ilze Brands Kehris, Arif Bulkan, Ahmed Amin
Fathalla, Shuichi Furuya, Bamariam Koita, Marcia V.J. Kran, Duncan Laki Muhumuza, Photini
Pazartzis, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, Vasilka Sancin, José Manuel Santos Pais, Yuval Shany, Hélène
Tigroudja, Andreas Zimmermann and Gentian Zyberi.
*** An individual opinion by Committee members Marcia V.J. Kran, Vasilka Sancin and Yuval Shany
(dissenting) is annexed to the present Views.
1 The author requests that his identity be kept confidential.
GE.19-19879(E)