CAT/C/48/D/382/2009
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr. General
9 July 2012
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 382/2009
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-eighth session, 7 May–1
June 2012
GE.12-43924
Submitted by:
M.D.T. (unrepresented)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
11 April 2009 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
14 May 2012
Subject matter:
Deportation of the complainant from
Switzerland to the Democratic Republic of
Congo; risk of torture and cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment
Procedural issues:
None
Substantive issues:
Risk of torture following deportation; risk of
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
following deportation
Articles of the Convention:
3, paragraph 1