CAT/C/68/D/818/2017 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 15 January 2020 English Original: Spanish English, French and Spanish only Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 818/2017*, ** Communication submitted by: E.L.G. (represented by counsel, Valentín J. Aguilar Villuendas) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Spain Date of complaint: 23 March 2016 (initial submission) Document references: Decision taken pursuant to rule 115 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to the State party on 5 April 2017 (not issued in document form) Date of adoption of decision: 26 November 2019 Subject matter: Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in police custody Procedural issues: Incompatibility ratione materiae, lack of substantiation, exhaustion of domestic remedies Substantive issues: Torture; cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment; conditions of detention; lack of a full and impartial judicial process Articles of the Convention: 1, 2, 11, 12, 13 and 16 1. The complainant is E.L.G., a national of Spain, born in 1979. She claims that the State party has violated her rights under articles 1, 12, 13 and 16 of the Convention. Although the complainant does not explicitly invoke articles 2 and 11 of the Convention, the communication also appears to raise issues related to those articles. The complainant is represented by counsel. The State party has made the declaration pursuant to article 22 of the Convention, effective from 21 October 1987. The facts as submitted by the complainant 2.1 The complainant lives in Córdoba, Spain. She alleges that, on 27 January 2013, she was walking through the train station in Córdoba on her way home when she was stopped by four officials (three men and one woman) in plain clothes who, claiming to be police officers, asked to search her bag. When they found a wallet that was not hers in it, they * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-eighth session (11 November–6 December 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.20-00488 (E) 030220 030220 

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