CAT/C/47/D/327/2007
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
13 January 2012
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 327/2007
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-seventh session, 31
October to 25 November 2011
GE.12-40104
Submitted by:
Régent Boily (represented by counsel,
Christian Deslauriers and Philippe
Larochelle)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Canada
Date of the complaint:
4 July 2007 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
14 November 2011
Subject matter:
Extradition of the complainant to Mexico to
serve a prison sentence for drug trafficking
Procedural issues:
Non-exhaustion of domestic remedies;
allegations insufficiently substantiated;
failure to show prima facie violation of article
3; lack of a personal, real and specific risk of
torture in Mexico
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture in the case of extradition of
the complainant
Articles of the Convention:
3 and 22