CAT/C/63/D/830/2017
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
22 June 2018
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 830/2017*, **
Communication submitted by:
K.E. (represented by counsel, Rasan T. Selliah)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Australia
Date of complaint:
21 June 2017 (initial submission)
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon deportation to Sri Lanka
At its meeting on 27 April 2018, the Committee, having received a request from the
complainant to discontinue the communication as he had returned voluntarily to Sri Lanka
on 20 November 2017, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication
No. 830/2017.
* Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-third session (23 April–18 May 2018).
** 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, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang.
GE.18-10232(E)