CAT/C/70/D/950/2019
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
11 February 2021
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 950/2019*, **
Communication submitted by:
A.R. (represented by counsel, Ruth Nordström)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Sweden
Date of complaint:
21 August 2019 (initial submission)
Substantive issues:
Deportation to Afghanistan; risk of torture
On 30 December 2020, the Committee, having been informed that the expulsion order
against the complainant had become time-barred and that he could now submit a new asylum
application in Sweden, decided to discontinue its examination of communication No.
950/2019.
* Adopted by the Committee intersessionally on 30 December 2020.
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Claude Heller, Erdogan Iscan, Liu Huawen, Jens Modvig, Ilvija Puce, Diego
Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov.
GE.21-01877(E)