CAT/C/54/D/491/2012
Annex
Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22 of
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (fifty-fourth session)
concerning
Communication No. 491/2012*
Submitted by:
E. E. E. (represented by counsel, Stephanie
Motz, Advokatur Kanonengasse)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
16 February 2012 (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 8 May 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of complaint No. 491/2012, submitted to it by
E. E. E. under article 22 of the Convention,
Having taken into account all information made available to it by the complainant,
her counsel and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Decision under article 22 (7) of the Convention
1.1
The complainant is E. E. E., an Ethiopian national born on 27 December 1978. She
claims that her deportation to Ethiopia would constitute a violation by Switzerland of
article 3 of the Convention. The complainant is represented by counsel.
1.2
On 23 February 2012, the Committee requested the State party to refrain from
expelling the complainant to Ethiopia while her complaint was being considered by the
Committee. On 27 February 2012, the State party informed the Committee that the Federal
Migration Office had requested the competent authorities to stay the execution of the
expulsion order in relation to the complainant until further notice.
The facts as submitted by the complainant
2.1
The complainant is of Oromo ethnicity. She attended university in Addis Ababa,
where she met students who were political activists and sympathizers of the Oromo
Liberation Front (OLF). She claims that she started participating in meetings and activities
organized by that group of students and that, in or around 2000, she became a member of
* The following members of the Committee participated in the consideration of the present
communication: Essadia Belmir, Alessio Bruni, Satyabhoosun Gupt Domah, Abdoulaye Gaye, Jens
Modvig, Sapana Pradhan-Malla, George Tugushi and Kening Zhang.
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