CAT/C/63/D/744/2016
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Advance unedited version
Distr.: General
13 August 2018
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention,
concerning Communication No. Communication No. 744/2016 **’**
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Submitted by:
H.A. (represented by counsel, Viktoria Nyström)
Alleged victim(s):
The complainant
State party:
Sweden
Date of complaint:
8 April 2016 (initial submission)
Date of adoption of decision:
11 May 2018
Subject matter:
Deportation to Iraq
Substantive issue(s):
Non-refoulement
Procedural issue(s):
Examination by another procedure of international
investigation or settlement, level of substantiation of
claims
Article(s) of the Convention:
3
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, Ana Racu, Diego
Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang
GE.18-03928(E)