CAT/C/49/D/385/2009
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
4 February 2013
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 385/2009
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-ninth session,
29 October to 23 November 2012
GE.13-40780
Submitted by:
M.A.F. et al. (not represented by counsel)
Alleged victims:
The complainants
State party:
Sweden
Date of complaint:
13 May 2009 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
23 November 2012
Subject matter:
Risk of deportation of complainant to Libya
Procedural issue:
Inadmissibility ratione materiae
Substantive issue:
Deportation of a person to another State
where there are substantial grounds for
believing that he or she would be in danger of
being subjected to torture
Articles of the Convention:
3 and 22