CAT/C/52/D/372/2009
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
8 July 2014
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 372/2009
Decision adopted by the Committee at its fifty-second session (28 April–
23 May)
GE.14-07821 (E)
Submitted by:
Diory Barry (or Diodory Barry), represented
by Alberto J. Revuelta Lucerga, lawyer
On behalf of:
Diory Barry (or Diodory Barry)
State party:
Morocco
Date of complaint:
1 November 2008 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
19 May 2014
Subject matter:
Procedural issue:
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of the
author during his expulsion to Mauritania
(abandoned in the desert)
Inaccessibility of domestic remedies
Substantive issue:
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Article of the Convention:
Article 16 of the Convention
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