CCPR/C/121/D/2612/2015 author’s deportation from the State party until further notice, in compliance with the Committee’s request. The facts as submitted by the author 2.1 The author is of Arab ethnicity and of the Muslim faith. He used to live in Egypt. He alleges that, in July 2005, he submitted all the relevant documents to do his military service at the military conscription office in Al-Giza, Egypt. He was supposed to start his military service at the end of August 2005; however, he failed to show up. Instead, he took several small jobs in Cairo. 2.2 In 2007, police officers detained him near the train station in Al-Fayyum. As he could not demonstrate that he had carried out his military service, he was taken to a police station and told to wait for an officer. After two hours, he asked permission to leave since he had to pick up his sister who was doing an exam in the area. The police took his fingerprints and released him. He was told that he should expect to be picked up at his home, but no one came in the following days. He went back to Cairo to work. 2.3 In June 2008, the author left Egypt from the airport so as to avoid military service. He claims that although he used his passport and had an exit permit, his departure was illegal, as people were not supposed to leave the country if they had not performed military service. He travelled to Libya and Italy, where he was arrested and deported back to Egypt in July 2008, together with other Egyptian migrants. On his arrival at Cairo airport, he was detained for five to six days by the police. During his detention, he was taken to different police stations, interrogated about his illegal departure and reminded that he had not performed military service. The author was finally released at the airport and told to register at the place where he had submitted the documents to do his military service. He went back to his home in Al-Fayyum and stayed there for a week. Then he moved to Cairo, where he spent 14 days before departing illegally from Egypt and travelling to Libya and Italy again. His parents and siblings stayed in Egypt and currently live there. 2.4 The author stayed in Italy until late December 2010 when he left to Denmark. On 28 December 2010, he applied for asylum to the Danish Immigration Service, using a false name — F.B.A — and giving false grounds for requesting asylum. 1 He alleges that he provided false information due to “fear” and “bad advice”. On 18 July 2011, the Danish Immigration Service found his application manifestly unfounded and without the right to appeal to the Refugee Appeals Board. 2.5 The author then went back to Italy. After losing his passport, the author contacted the Egyptian embassy in Rome and he received a new passport in 2012, valid for one year. He had to leave a copy of his old passport (which was still valid) at the embassy. In the new passport, “Conscript situation. Draft age” was written by the embassy. In September 2013, the author moved to Switzerland, where he applied for asylum on 19 September 2013. However, the Swiss authorities transferred him back to Denmark in accordance with the Dublin Regulations. 2.6 On 17 October 2013, the author entered Denmark again. He informed the police of his real identity, as indicated in his passport, and submitted an application for asylum. He alleged that he feared being arrested upon return to Egypt; convicted to several years of imprisonment since he left the country illegally twice, without performing military service; and that he had been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment while in prison in Egypt. He also claimed that he feared persecution by the authorities because he supported former President Mohammed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood. The author stated that he did not want to do military service because the military was not fair to draftees and humiliated them and also because the military treated the population unfairly, in particular poor people. He stated that there was no justice in Egypt since courts always ruled in favour of State agents. 2.7 During his interviews with the Danish Immigration Service on 25 April and 10 November 2014, the author stated that, inter alia, he sympathized with and supported the 1 2 See also para. 4.5 below.

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