CAT/C/52/D/455/2011*
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
20 June 2014
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 455/2011
Decision adopted by the Committee at its fifty-second session
(28 April–23 May 2014)
Submitted by:
X.Q.L. (represented by counsel, John Clark of
Balmain for Refugees)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Australia
Date of complaint:
3 March 2011 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
2 May 2014
Subject matter:
Risk of deportation of complainant to China
Procedural issues:
Substantive issues:
Deportation of a person to a country where she
could be at risk of torture
Articles of the Convention:
3 and 22
* Reissued for technical reasons on 9 October 2014.
GE.14-18222 (E)