CAT/C/48/D/370/2009
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
22 June 2012
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 370/2009
Decision adopted by the Committee against Torture at its forty-eighth
session, 7 May–1 June 2012
GE.12-43638 (E)
Submitted by:
E.L. (represented by counsel, Mr. Carlos
Hoyos-Tello)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Canada
Date of complaint:
14 January 2009 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
21 May 2012
Subject matter:
Risk of deportation of complainant to Haiti
Procedural issues:
Inadmissibility ratione materiae and ratione
personae
Substantive issues:
Deportation of a person to another State
where there are substantial grounds for
believing that he would be in danger of being
subjected to torture
Articles of the Convention:
3 and 22
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