CAT/C/59/D/691/2015
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
27 January 2017
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 691/2015*, **
Communication submitted by:
S (represented by counsel Viktoria Nystrom)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Sweden
Date of complaint:
1 June 2015 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
25 November 2016
Subject matter:
Admissibility
Procedural issues:
Communication under another procedure of
international investigation or settlement
Substantive issues:
Risk of torture or ill-treatment in case of
deportation, non-refoulement
Article of the Convention:
3
1.1
The complainant is S, a national of the Islamic Republic of Iran born in March 1981.
Her claim for asylum in Sweden was rejected by the Swedish Migration Board on 27 June
2014. The initial complaint was submitted on 1 June 2015 and further information was
provided on 21 July 2015. She claims that the State party would violate her rights under
article 3 of the Convention if she was deported to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The
complainant is represented by counsel, Ms. Viktoria Nystrom.
1.2
On 28 July 2015, pursuant to rule 114, paragraph 1, of its rules of procedure and in
the light of the information provided by the complainant, the Committee, acting through its
Special Rapporteur on new communications and interim measures, requested the State
party not to deport the complainant to the Islamic Republic of Iran while the
communication was being considered by the Committee.
1.3
On 28 January 2016, at the request of the State party, the Committee, acting through
its Special Rapporteur on new communications and interim measures, decided to examine
the admissibility of the communication separately from the merits.
* Adopted by the Committee at its fifty-ninth session (7 November-7 December 2016).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Alessio Bruni, Felice Gaer, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Sébastien Touzé
and Kening Zhang.