CAT/C/67/D/849/2017 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 20 September 2019 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 849/2017*, ** Communication submitted by: B.S. (represented by counsel, Zoheir Snasni) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Canada Date of complaint: 17 October 2017 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture and ill-treatment upon deportation to India At its meeting on 26 July 2019, the Committee, having been informed by counsel that he had been unable to submit his comments on the State party’s observations on admissibility and the merits because he had lost contact with the complainant after the State party had removed the complainant to India on 15 December 2017, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 849/2017. * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-seventh session (22 July–9 August 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 and Sébastien Touzé. GE.19-16213(E) 

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