United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Sessional/Annual Report of Committee - communication but identifying the State party concerned. 272. Pursuant to rule 112 of its rules of procedure, the Committee shall include in its annual report a summary of the communications examined. The Committee may also include in its annual report the text of its Views under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention and the text of any decision declaring a communication inadmissible. 273. During the period covered by the present report (seventeenth and eighteenth sessions) the Committee had 39 communications before it for consideration (Nos. 11/1993, 12/1993, 19/1994, 20/1994, 27/1995-29/1995, 33/1995, 34/1995, 37/1995, 38/1995, 39/1996, 40/1996, 42/1996-62/1996 and 63/1997-67/1997). 274. At its seventeenth session, the Committee decided to discontinue the consideration of communications Nos. 11/1993, 12/1993, 44/1996, 51/1996 and 53/1996. 275. Also at its seventeenth session, the Committee adopted its Views in respect of communication No. 43/1996 (Tala v. Sweden). The Committee decided that Mr. Tala's forced return to Iran would violate the State party's obligation under article 3 of the Convention not to return a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture. In reaching its decision, the Committee took into account Mr. Tala's affiliation with the People's Mujahedin Organization and his history of detention and torture, as well as the serious human rights situation in Iran. The text of the Views is reproduced in annex V. 276. At its eighteenth session, the Committee decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 56/1996. 277. Also at its eighteenth session, the Committee adopted its Views in respect of communications Nos. 27/1995 (X v. Switzerland), 34/1995 (Aemei v. Switzerland), 38/1995 (X v. Switzerland), 39/1996 (Tapia Paez v. Sweden) and 40/1996 (Mohamed v. Greece). The text of the Views of the Committee for each of the communications is reproduced in annex V. 278. With respect to communication No. 27/1995, the Committee took note of the inconsistencies in the author's story and considered that the information available did not show that substantial grounds existed for believing that the author would be personally at risk of being subject to torture if he were to be returned to Sudan. Accordingly, the Committee decided that the facts did not reveal a violation of article 3 of the Convention. 279. In its Views on communication No. 34/1995 (Aemei v. Switzerland), the Committee decided that the return of Mr. Aemei and his family to Iran would violate the State party's obligation under article 3 of the Convention. The Committee based its Views in particular on the political activities undertaken by Mr. Aemei after he left Iran, which led to clashes between him and representatives of Iran in Switzerland. 280. The Committee found that the facts of communication No. 38/1995 did not reveal that the author's return to Sudan would constitute a violation of article 3 of the Convention. The Committee took into account the fact that the author had not been in prolonged detention before, had never been ill-treated or http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/de75e94f920bd0a0802565a600537744?Opendocument (44 of 109)16/10/2006 9:54:12 AM