CAT/C/48/D/343/2008
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
4 July 2012
English
Original: English/French
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 343/2008
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-eighth session, 7 May to
1 June 2012
GE.12-43835 (E)
Submitted by:
Arthur Kasombola Kalonzo
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Canada
Date of complaint:
4 June 2008 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
18 May 2012
Subject matter:
Risk of complainant’s deportation to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Procedural issue:
Non-exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon return
Article of the Convention:
3
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