CAT/C/63/D/767/2016 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 7 August 2018 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 767/2016*, ** Communication submitted by: U.A. (represented by counsel, Rajwinder S. Bhambi) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Canada Date of complaint: 16 August 2016 (initial submission) Date of present decision: 17 May 2018 Subject matter: Deportation of the complainant from Canada to Pakistan Procedural issues: Non-substantiation of claims; non-exhaustion of domestic remedies; incompatibility with the Convention Substantive issue: Risk of torture in the event of deportation to country of origin (non-refoulement) Articles of the Convention: 3 and 22 1.1 The complainant is U.A., a national of Pakistan born in 1987. He claims that his forcible removal to Pakistan would constitute a violation by Canada of article 3 of the Convention. The complainant is represented by counsel. 1.2 On 17 August 2016, pursuant to rule 114, paragraph 1, of its rules of procedure, the Committee, acting through its Rapporteur on new complaints and interim measures, requested the State party not to deport the complainant to Pakistan while the communication was being considered by the Committee. 1.3 On the same date, the Committee informed the complainant that the request for interim measures would be automatically lifted unless he further substantiated the risk he faced upon his return to Pakistan, notably by providing proof of blasphemy charges against him, by 17 October 2016. * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-third session (23 April–18 May 2018). ** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Essadia Belmir, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang. GE.18-12980(E) 

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