CAT/C/37/D/286/2006 Page 2 ANNEX DECISION OF THE COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE UNDER ARTICLE 22 OF THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT Thirty-seventh session Concerning Communication No. 286/2006 Submitted by: M. R. A. (represented by counsel) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Sweden Date of the complaint: 17 January 2006 The Committee against Torture, established under Article 17 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Meeting on 17 November 2006, Having concluded its consideration of complaint No. 286/2006, submitted to the Committee against Torture on behalf of M. R. A. under article 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Having taken into account all information made available to it by the complainant, his counsel and the State party, Adopts the following decision under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention against Torture. 1.1 The complainant is M. R. A., an Iraqi citizen born in 1960, currently awaiting deportation from Sweden to Iraq. He claims that his deportation to Iraq would constitute a violation by Sweden of article 3 of the Convention against Torture. He is represented by counsel. 1.2 By Note Verbale of 17 January 2006, the Committee transmitted the complaint to the State party, together with a request under rule 108, paragraph 1, of the Committee’s Rules of Procedure, not to expel the complainant to Iraq pending the Committee’s consideration of his complaint. Facts as presented by the complainant 2.1 In 1995, the complainant, who is Shia-Muslim, left Iraq for Lebanon, allegedly because of problems he had in Iraq in relation to his family members’ political involvement. In September 1995, he was recognised as a refugee by UNHCR in Lebanon. Due to the difficult situation for refugees in Lebanon, he left the country by boat in 1997 together with other

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