CAT/C/57/D/605/2014
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
13 June 2016
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 605/2014,
Submitted by:
G.R. (represented by counsel, John Phillip
Sweeney)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Australia
Date of communication:
23 May 2014 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
13 May 2016
Subject matter:
Forcible return of a person to another State
where there are substantial grounds for believing
that he would be in danger of being subjected to
torture
Procedural issues:
Level of substantiation of claims; inadmissibility
ratione materiae; incompatibility with the
Convention
Substantive issues:
Risk of torture of the complainant upon forcible
return to Sri Lanka
Article of the Covenant:
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Adopted by the Committee at its fifty-seventh session (18 April-13 May 2016).
The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Essadia Belmir, Alessio Bruni, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller
Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Sapana Pradhan-Malla, Ana Racu, Sébastien Touzé and Kening Zhang.
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