CAT/C/66/D/735/2016
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
6 June 2019
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 735/2016*, **
Communication submitted by:
C.R.R. (represented by counsel, Morten
Peschardt Pedersen)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Denmark
Date of complaint:
18 March 2016 (initial submission)
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture and ill-treatment upon deportation
to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
At its meeting on 3 May 2019, the Committee, having received no further
information from the parties, and taking into account that the complainant had left Denmark
and did not continue to face a risk of removal, decided to discontinue the consideration of
communication No. 735/2016.
* Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-sixth session (23 April–17 May 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu,
Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang.
GE.19-09159(E)