CAT/C/64/D/451/2011 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 29 August 2018 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 451/2011*, ** Communication submitted by: X Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Ukraine Date of complaint: 19 January 2010 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Forced confession under torture At its meeting on 3 August 2018, the Committee, not having received the complainant’s comments on the State party’s observations, despite sending several reminders to that effect, and therefore being unable to continue the proceedings, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 451/2011. * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-fourth session (23 July–10 August 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.18-14192(E) 

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