United Nations CCPR/C/126/D/2346/2014* International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Distr.: General 14 August 2019 Original: English Human Rights Committee Decision adopted by the Committee under the Optional Protocol, concerning communication No. 2346/2014**, *** Communication submitted by: E.K. (represented by counsel, Niels-Erik Hansen) Alleged victim: The author State party: Denmark Date of communication: 7 February 2014 (initial submission) Document reference: Decision taken pursuant to rule 92 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to the State party on 11 February 2014 (not issued in document form) Date of adoption of decision: 24 July 2019 Subject matter: Deportation to Afghanistan Procedural issue: Insufficient substantiation of claims Substantive issues: Right to life; torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; nonrefoulement; protection of aliens against arbitrary expulsion; right to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal; right to freedom of religion or belief; right to the equal protection of the law Articles of the Covenant: 6, 7, 13, 14, 18 and 26 Article of the Optional Protocol: 2 1.1 The author of the communication is E.K., an Afghan national born in 1992. 1 His request for asylum in Denmark was rejected and at the time of submission of the communication, he was in detention awaiting deportation to Afghanistan. At that time, the author claimed that, by forcibly returning him to Afghanistan, Denmark would violate his rights under articles 6, 7, 14, 18 and 26 of the Covenant. In the subsequent submission of 9 * Reissued for technical reasons on 9 January 2020. ** Adopted by the Committee at its 126th session (1–26 July 2019). *** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: 1 Tania María Abdo Rocholl, Yadh Ben Achour, Ilze Brands Kehris, Arif Bulkan, Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Shuichi Furuya, Bamariam Koita, Duncan Laki Muhumuza, Photini Pazartzis, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, Vasilka Sancin, José Manuel Santos Pais, Yuval Shany, Hélène Tigroudja, Andreas Zimmermann and Gentian Zyberi. The author’s nationality and year of birth have been contested at different stages of the asylum proceedings in Denmark. GE.19-13873(E) 

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