CCPR/C/125/D/2345/2014
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
18 April 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the
Optional Protocol, concerning communication No.
2345/2014*, **
Communication submitted by:
M.M. (represented by counsel, Niels-Erik
Hansen)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Denmark
Date of communication:
7 February 2014 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 97 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted
to the State party on 11 February 2014 (not
issued in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
14 March 2019
Subject matter:
Deportation to Afghanistan
Procedural issue:
Insufficient substantiation of claims
Substantive issues:
Right to life; torture, cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment; nonrefoulement; protection of aliens against
arbitrary expulsion; right to a fair and public
hearing by a competent, independent and
impartial tribunal; right to freedom of
religion or belief; right to the equal protection
of the law
Articles of the Covenant:
6, 7, 13, 14, 18 and 26
Article of the Optional Protocol:
2
1.1
The author of the communication is M.M., an Afghan national born in 1993. His
request for asylum in Denmark was rejected and, at the time of submission of the
communication, he was in detention awaiting deportation to Afghanistan. At that time, the
author claimed that, by forcibly deporting him to Afghanistan, Denmark would violate his
* Adopted by the Committee at its 125th session (4–29 March 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Tania
María Abdo Rocholl, Yadh Ben Achour, Ilze Brands Kehris, Christopher Arif Bulkan, Ahmed Amin
Fathalla, Shuichi Furuya, Christof Heyns, Bamariam Koita, Marcia Kran, Duncan Laki Muhumuza,
Photini Pazartzis, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, Vasilka Sancin, José Manuel Santos Pais, Yuval Shany,
Hélène Tigroudja, Andreas Zimmermann and Gentian Zyberi.
GE.19-06548(E)