CAT/C/66/D/760/2016 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 12 June 2019 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 760/2016*, ** Communication submitted by: K. and K. (represented by counsel, Mr. Verbaas) Alleged victims: The complainants State party: Netherlands Date of complaint: 20 May 2016 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture upon deportation to Sierra Leone At its meeting on 3 May 2019, the Committee, having been informed that the complainants, who are mother and daughter, had received regular residence permits valid until 2023, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 760/2016. * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-sixth session (23 April–17 May 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, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Honghong Zhang. Mr. Hani expressed reservations about the decision, without entering an individual opinion pursuant to rule 119 of the Committee’s rules of procedure. GE.19-09414(E) 

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