CAT/C/59/D/610/2014
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
18 January 2017
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 610/2014*, **
Communication submitted by:
R.M. (represented by counsel, Ahmed Ziauddin)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Sweden
Date of complaint:
6 June 2014 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
30 November 2016
Subject matter:
Deportation to Bangladesh
Procedural issue:
Lack of substantiation
Substantive issues:
Non-refoulement; prevention of torture
Articles of the Convention:
3 and 22
1.1
The complainant is R.M., a national of Bangladesh born in 1981. He sought asylum
in Sweden, his application was rejected and he now risks deportation. He claims that his
removal to Bangladesh by Sweden would put him at risk of being killed or kidnapped by
the Awami League party and of being put in jail by a law enforcement agency, in violation
of article 3 of the Convention.
1.2
On 6 June 2014, the Committee, acting through its Rapporteur on new complaints
and interim measures, requested the State party not to expel the complainant pending
consideration of the complaint.
The facts as presented by the complainant
2.1
The complainant submits that he was forced to seek asylum in Sweden on 26
February 2012, after members of the ruling party in Bangladesh, the Awami League, had
tried to torture and kill him. The local party leader attacked the complainant and his family
members on many occasions and forced the complainant to hide in various parts of the
* Adopted by the Committee at its fifty-ninth session (7 November-7 December 2016).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Alessio Bruni, Felice Gaer, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu,
Sébastien Touzé and Kening Zhang.
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