CAT/C/47/D/351/2008
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
18 January 2012
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 351/2008
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-seventh session,
31 October to 25 November 2011
GE.12-40233 (E)
Submitted by:
E.L. (not represented by counsel)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
9 May 2008 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
15 November 2011
Subject matter:
Deportation of the complainant to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Procedural issues:
Insufficiently substantiated allegations;
failure to establish prima facie violation of
article 3; absence of personal, real and
concrete risk of torture in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo
Substantive issues:
Risk of torture following deportation of the
complainant
Articles of the Convention:
3 and 22
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