CAT/C/53/D/489/2012
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
20 January 2015
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 489/2012
Decision adopted by the Committee at its fifty-third session,
3–28 November 2014
Submitted by:
Asghar Tahmuresi, represented by counsel Urs
Ebnöther
On behalf of:
Asghar Tahmuresi
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
20 January 2012 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
26 November 2014
Subject matter:
Deportation to Iran
Procedural issue:
-
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon deportation
Article of the Convention:
3
GE.15-00689 (E)