87. Also at its thirty-eighth session, the Committee decided to declare inadmissible complaint
No. 305/2006 (A.R.A. v. Sweden), which concerned claims under article 3 of the Convention. The
Committee noted that the complainant had filed an application with the European Court of
Human Rights, which was still pending before the Court when the complainant submitted an
identical complaint to the Committee. It recalled that, under article 22, paragraph 5 (a) of the
Convention, the Committee shall not consider any communications from an individual unless it
has ascertained that the same matter has not been and is not being examined under another
procedure of international investigation or settlement. The Committee considered that a
communication has been, and is being examined by another procedure of international
investigation or settlement, if such examination relates to the “same matter”, which must be
understood as relating to the same parties, the same facts and the same substantive rights alleged
to have been violated. In the case at issue, the application before the European Court was
submitted by the same complainant, was based on the same facts and related to the same
substantive rights as those invoked in the communication before the Committee. Accordingly, it
concluded that the communication was inadmissible. The text of this decision is reproduced in
annex VII, section B, to the present report.
Complaints in which the Committee has found violations of the Convention up to the
thirty-eighth session
State party
AUSTRIA
Case
Halimi-Nedibi Quani, 8/1991
Nationality and country of removal
if applicable
Yugoslav
Views adopted on
18 November 1993
Issues and violations found
Failure to investigate allegations of torture article 12.
Interim measures granted and State party
response
None
Remedy recommended
The State party is requested to ensure that similar
violations do not occur in the future.
Due date for State party response
None
Date of reply
None
State party response
None
Complainant’s response
N/A
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