CAT/C/68/D/897/2018 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 7 January 2020 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 897/2018*, ** Communication submitted by: A.S. (represented by counsel, Rebecca Ahlstrand) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Sweden Date of complaint: 12 November 2018 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture upon deportation to the Islamic Republic of Iran At its meeting on 15 November 2019, the Committee, having ascertained that on 2 January 2019, the complainant had applied for a renewal of asylum proceedings and a residence permit to stay in Sweden, and that the expulsion order against him in Sweden had become time-barred, decided to discontinue the examination of communication No. 897/2018, on the understanding that the complainant would be entitled to submit a new communication to it in the event of a renewed risk of forcible removal from the State party’s territory. * 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, Sébastien Touzé and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov. GE.20-00124(E) 

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