CAT/C/45/D/333/2007
Annex
Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22 of
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (forty-fifth session)
concerning
Communication No. 333/2007
Submitted by:
T.I. (unrepresented)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Canada
Date of the complaint:
15 September 2007 (initial submission)
The Committee against Torture, established under Article 17 of the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Meeting on 15 November 2010,
Having concluded its consideration of complaint No. 333/2007, submitted to the
Committee against Torture by T.I. under article 22 of the Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Having taken into account all information made available to it by the complainant,
his counsel and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Decision under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention against
Torture.
1.1
The complainant is T.I., an Uzbek citizen, currently awaiting deportation from
Canada. He claims that his deportation to Uzbekistan would constitute a violation by
Canada of articles 1 and 3 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He is unrepresented.
Factual background
2.1
The complainant was born in 1962 in Uzbekistan. He is an ethnic Tatar, who was
educated in Russian and does not speak the Uzbek language. In 1991, he was allegedly
forced to quit his job as a lawyer because he was a Tatar and only Uzbeks could work in the
justice system. In 1992, he started his own company, which he claims was also
unsuccessful because of his Tatar origin.
2.2
In 1995, he became a partner in a trading company operating in Dubai. The same
year, while he was in Dubai on a business trip, he received a phone call from his mother,
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