CAT/C/67/D/800/2017
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
6 September 2019
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 800/2017*, **
Communication submitted by:
S.S. (represented by counsel, R.S. Nandoe)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Netherlands
Date of complaint:
25 January 2017 (initial submission)
Substantive issue:
Risk of torture upon deportation to Sri Lanka
At its meeting on 26 July 2019, the Committee, having been informed that the
complainant had left the State party’s territory and had filed a claim for asylum in another
country, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 800/2017.
* Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-seventh session (22 July–9 August 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.19-15269(E)