CAT/C/48/D/413/2010 Annex Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (forty-eighth session) concerning Communication No. 413/2010 Submitted by: A.A.M. (represented by counsel, E.P.) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Sweden Date of complaint: 19 February 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 23 May 2012, Having concluded its consideration of complaint No. 413/2010, submitted to the Committee against Torture by E.P. on behalf of A.A.M. 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 A.A.M., a national of Burundi born on 3 December 1982 in the village of Mbuye in Muramvya province, Burundi; she currently resides in Sweden. She claims that an enforcement of her expulsion order to Burundi1 would violate article 3 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Convention). The complainant is represented by counsel, E.P. 1.2 Under rule 114 (former rule 108), of its rules of procedure (CAT/C/3/Rev.5), the Committee requested the State party, on 2 March 2010, to refrain from expelling the complainant to Burundi while her communication is under consideration by the Committee. Factual background 2.1 The complainant comes from a family belonging to the Tutsi ethnicity. Her parents, E.N. and C.B., were killed in 1993 by Hutu militia in the village of Mbuye. Thereafter, her 1 2 Burundi acceded to the Convention on 18 February 1993 and accepted the Committee’s competence to receive and consider individual communications in accordance with article 22 of the Convention on 10 June 2003.

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