CAT/C/66/D/825/2017 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 7 June 2019 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 825/2017*, ** Communication submitted by: T. (represented by counsel, Neda Khansan) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Sweden Date of complaint: 9 May 2017 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture upon deportation to Afghanistan At its meeting on 3 May 2019, the Committee, having been informed that since the expulsion order against the complainant had become time-barred, and that he could now submit a new asylum application in Sweden, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 825/2017 on the understanding that the complainant would be entitled to submit a new communication to the Committee in the event of a renewed risk of forcible removal from the State party’s territory. * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-sixth session (23 April–17 May 2019). ** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang. Mr. Hani expressed reservations about the decision, without entering an individual opinion pursuant to Rule 119 of the Committee’s Rules of Procedure. GE.19-09220(E) 

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