CAT/C/48/D/391/2009
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
10 July 2012
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 391/2009
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-eighth session, 7 May–1
June 2012
GE.12-43978
Submitted by:
M.A.M.A. et al. (represented by counsel, Per
Andersson)
Alleged victims:
The complainants
State party:
Sweden
Date of complaint:
7 July 2009 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
23 May 2012
Subject matter:
Expulsion of the complainants to Egypt
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon return to the country of
origin
Procedural issue:
Non-substantiation of claims
Articles of the Convention:
3 and 16