CAT/C/64/D/656/2015 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 14 May 2019 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 656/2015*, ** Communication submitted by: P.S. Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Canada Date of complaint: 5 January 2015 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture upon deportation At its meeting on 3 August 2018, the Committee, not having received the complainant’s comments on the State party’s observations, despite sending three reminders to that effect, and therefore being unable to continue the proceedings, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 656/2015. * 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.19-07820(E) 

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