CAT/C/49/D/389/2009
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
4 February 2013
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 389/2009
Decision adopted by the Committee against Torture at its forty-ninth
session (29 October–23 November 2012)
GE.13-40787 (E)
Submitted by:
R.A. (represented by the Service d’Aide
Juridique aux Exilé-e-s (SAJE))
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
29 June 2009 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
20 November 2012
Subject matter:
Expulsion of the complainant from
Switzerland to Turkey
Procedural issue:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture following expulsion
Articles of the Convention:
3 and 22, paragraph 5 (b)
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