CAT/C/62/D/636/2014
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
9 January 2018
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 636/2014*, **
Communication submitted by:
E.M. (represented by counsel, Susanne Tölke)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Germany
Date of complaint:
3 November 2014 (initial submission)
Substantive issue:
Extradition to Kazakhstan
At its meeting on 6 November 2017, the Committee, having ascertained that the
complainant had been extradited to Kazakhstan on 4 November 2014 and that his counsel
was no longer in contact with him, decided to discontinue the consideration of
communication No. 636/2014.
* Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-second session (6 November–6 December 2017).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Alessio Bruni, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens
Modvig, Ana Racu, Sébastien Touzé and Kening Zhang.
GE.18-00304(E)