CAT/C/63/D/753/2016
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
22 June 2018
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication
No. 753/2016*, **
Communication submitted by:
S.X. (represented by counsel, John Sweeney)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Australia
Date of complaint:
27 April 2016 (initial submission)
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 the complainant had
voluntarily departed for Sri Lanka on 10 August 2017 and the counsel had subsequently
lost contact with him, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication
No. 753/2016.
* 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.18-10234(E)