CAT/C/63/D/737/2016 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 21 June 2018 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 737/2016*, ** Communication submitted by: S.K. (represented by counsel, John Sweeney) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Australia Date of complaint: 20 March 2016 Substantive issue: Risk of torture upon deportation to Sri Lanka At its meeting on 27 April 2018, the Committee, having received a request from the complainant’s counsel to discontinue the communication as he had lost contact with the complainant, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 737/2016. * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-third session (23 April–18 May 2018). ** 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. GE.18-10181(E) 

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