CAT/C/53/D/492/2012
Annex
Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22 of
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (fifty-third session)
concerning
Communication No. 492/2012
Submitted by:
Abed Azizi (represented by counsel,
Urs Ebnöther)
Alleged victim:
Abed Azizi
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
22 February 2012 (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 27 November 2014,
Having concluded its consideration of complaint No. 492/2012, submitted on behalf
of Abed Azizi 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 and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment
1.1
The complainant, Abed Azizi, is a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran, born on 14
April 1983. He claims that his deportation to the Islamic Republic of Iran would constitute
a violation by Switzerland of article 3 of the Convention against Torture. The complainant
is represented by counsel, Urs Ebnöther.
1.2
On 27 February 2012, the Committee requested the State party, pursuant to rule 114,
paragraph 1, of its rules of procedure, not to deport the complainant to the Islamic Republic
of Iran while the complaint is being considered.
The facts as submitted by the complainant
2.1
The complainant is an Iranian national of Kurdish ethnicity from the town of Negel.
Through a friend, the complainant was introduced to the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran
2