CAT/C/51/D/426/2010
Annex
Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22 of
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (fifty-first session)
concerning
Communication No. 426/2010
Submitted by:
R.D. (represented by Tarig Hassan of Advokatur
Kanonengasse)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
14 June 2010 (initial submission)
The Committee against Torture, established under article 17 of the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Meeting on 8 November 2013,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 426/2010, submitted to
the Committee against Torture by Tarig Hassan on behalf of R.D. under article 22 of the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment,
Having taken into account all information made available to it by the complainant,
her counsel and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Decision under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention
against Torture
1.1
The complainant is R.D., an Ethiopian national born on 22 September 1984 and
residing in Switzerland. She claims that her deportation to Ethiopia would constitute a
violation by Switzerland of article 3 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The complainant is represented by
counsel, Tarig Hassan of Advokatur Kanonengasse.
1.2
On 29 June 2010, the Rapporteur on new complaints and interim measures decided
not to request interim measures from the State party to suspend the complainant’s
deportation to Ethiopia.
The facts as submitted by the complainant
2.1
The complainant is of Oromo ethnicity. Her father, G.D., was a member of the
Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), a political organization in Ethiopia, and has been
unaccounted for since his arrest in September 2005. According to the complainant, she and
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