CAT/C/48/D/364/2008
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
28 June 2012
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-eighth session,
7 May to 1 June 2012
Communication No. 364/2008
GE.12-43679 (E)
Submitted by:
J.L.L.
Alleged victims:
The complainant and his children, A.N. and
M.L.
State party:
Switzerland
Date of complaint:
18 November 2008 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
18 May 2012
Subject matter:
Risk of deportation of the complainant and
his children to the Democratic Republic of
the Congo
Procedural issue:
Non-exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issue:
Deportation of an individual 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, paragraph 5 (b)
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