CAT/C/20/D/90/1997 page 2 Annex VIEWS OF THE COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE UNDER ARTICLE 22, PARAGRAPH 7, OF THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT - TWENTIETH SESSION concerning Communication No. 90/1997 Submitted by: A.L.N. (name deleted) Alleged victims: The author State party: Switzerland Date of communication: 25 July 1997 The Committee against Torture, established in conformity with article 17 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Meeting on 19 May 1998, Having completed consideration of communication No. 90/1997 submitted to the Committee against Torture under article 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Having taken account of all the information communicated to it by the author of the communication and the State party, Adopts the following: Views under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention Draft recommendation by the Rapporteur 1. The author of the communication is A.L.N., an Angolan born on 25 September 1978. He is currently resident in Switzerland where he has applied for refugee status and risks being sent home. The author claims that his expulsion would constitute a violation of article 3 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The facts as submitted by the author 2.1 The author states that on 16 February 1997 his father, a member of UNITA, gave him a video cassette on torture and massacres perpetrated by MPLA for him to take to a friend. The cassette contained a scene filmed in 1987 showing soldiers plunging the then nine-year-old author's hand into boiling water in front of his father. The author says that the scars are still visible. He was arrested on the way during an identity check by MPLA

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