CAT/C/71/D/904/2018
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
31 August 2021
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 904/2018*, **
Communication submitted by:
N.A.O. (represented by former counsel, Johanna
Eriksson Ahlén, and by counsel, Cecilia von
Koch)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Sweden
Date of complaint:
21 December 2018 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rules 114 and 115 of
the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted
to the State party on 24 December 2018 (not
issued in document form)
Date of adoption of decision:
19 July 2021
Subject matter:
Deportation to Ethiopia
Procedural issue:
Admissibility – manifestly ill-founded
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture or other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment, if deported
to country of origin (non-refoulement)
Article of the Convention:
3
1.1
The complainant is N.A.O., a national of Ethiopia born in 1979. Her request for
asylum in the State party was rejected, and she risks forcible removal to Ethiopia. The
complainant claims that the State party, if it were to proceed with her deportation, would
violate her rights under article 3 of the Convention. The State party has made the declaration
pursuant to article 22 (1) of the Convention, effective from 8 January 1986. The complainant
is represented by counsel.
1.2
On 24 December 2018, pursuant to rule 114 (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 Ethiopia while the communication
was being considered by the Committee. Following the Committee’s request for interim
measures, the State party decided to suspend the enforcement of the complainant’s expulsion
order until further notice.
* Adopted by the Committee at its seventy-first session (12–30 July 2021).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Claude Heller, Erdoğan İşcan, Liu Huawen, Ilvija Pūce, Ana Racu, Diego RodríguezPinzón, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Peter Vedel Kessing.
GE.21-12062(E)