CAT/C/47/D/327/2007
Annex
Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22 of
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Forty-seventh
session)
concerning
Communication No. 327/2007
Submitted by:
Régent Boily (represented by counsel,
Christian Deslauriers and Philippe
Larochelle)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Canada
Date of complaint:
4 July 2007 (initial submission)
The Committee against Torture, established under article 17 of the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Meeting on 14 November 2011,
Having concluded its consideration of complaint No. 327/2007, submitted to the
Committee against Torture by Régent Boily 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, Régent Boily, is a citizen of Canada born in 1944. In his
complaint of 4 July 2007, he claimed that his extradition to Mexico would constitute a
violation by Canada of article 3 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He is represented by counsel, Christian
Deslauriers and Philippe Larochelle.
1.2
On 6 July 2007, the Rapporteur on new communications and interim measures,
pursuant to rule 108, paragraph 1, of the Committee’s rules of procedure (CAT/C/3/Rev.4),1
requested the State party not to extradite the complainant to Mexico while his complaint
was under consideration.
1
2
New rule 115, para. 1 (CAT/C/3/Rev.5).