CAT/C/34/D/226/2003 Page 14 5.7 The complainant , in response to a request for additional information from the Committee regarding the complainant’s political activities and the status and activities of the complainant’s husband, has informed the Committee that she has not been able to be politically active in Sweden, because the Jatiya Party does not any longer have any active organization there. Nor has she been able to be active in Bangladesh. However, Bangladeshi authorities are still interested in her. The complainant has been in contact with her parents. They have told her that four policemen in civilian clothes came to their home in September 2004, asking about her whereabouts and that of her husband. When they received a negative answer from Ms. T. A.’s relatives, they searched their home looking for them. Ms. T. A.’s parents have also stated that the police search Ms. T. A. at regular intervals. Issues and proceedings before the Committee: 6.1 Before considering any claims contained in a complaint, the Committee against Torture must decide whether or not it is admissible under article 22 of the Convention. The Committee has ascertained, as it is required to do under article 22, paragraph 5 (a), of the Convention, that the same matter has not been and is not being examined under another procedure of international investigation or settlement. The Committee further notes that domestic remedies have been exhausted, as acknowledged by the State party, and that the complainant has sufficiently elaborated the facts and the basis of the claim for the purposes of admissibility. Accordingly, the Committee considers the complaint admissible and proceeds to its consideration of the merits. 7.1 The first issue before the Committee is whether the removal of the complainant to Bangladesh would violate the State party’s obligation under article 3 of the Convention not to expel or to return a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he or she would be in danger of being subjected to torture. 7.2 The Committee must evaluate whether there are substantial grounds for believing that the complainant would be personally in danger of being subjected to

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