CAT/C/22/D/103/1998 page 8 6.2 The Committee noted the information given by the State party that the Immigration Board had stayed the enforcement of the expulsion order against the authors, pending the Committee’s final decision on the communication. 6.3 The Committee further noted that both the State party and the author’s counsel had provided observations on the merits of the communication, and that the State party had requested the Committee, if it were to find the communication admissible, to proceed to the examination of the merits of the communication. Nevertheless, the Committee considered that the information before it was not sufficient to enable it to adopt its Views at that stage. Accordingly, it decided to request both parties to make additional submissions within three months, with a view to examining the merits of the communication at the Committee’s twenty-second session. 6.4 In particular, the Committee decided to request from the authors’ counsel additional information about the nature of S.M.R.’s political activities after 1990 and the current situation of the other members of the political group to which she belonged. Likewise, the Committee requested clarifications from the State party and the authors’ counsel as to the circumstances relating to the authors’ departure from Iran and entry into Sweden, as well as their obtaining of passports. Clarifications were also requested regarding the authors’ statement that Swedish police authorities had informed the Iranian authorities about the illegal departure of M.M.R. from Iran. 6.5 Under rule 110, paragraph 3, of the rules of procedure, the Committee further requested the State party not to return the authors to Iran while their communication is under consideration by the Committee. Additional information submitted by the State party 7.1 In response to the Committee’s request regarding the circumstances of the authors’ departure from Iran, entry into Sweden and obtaining of passports, the State party submits that the information it provided is based on the authors’ own statements to Swedish immigration authorities. S.M.R.’s passport was issued on 10 May 1993 with validity until 10 May 1996. She applied for a visa in January 1995 in order for her and her two children to visit her brother in Sweden. They were granted entry visas valid for 30 days with departure from Sweden not later than 17 September 1995. She arrived in Sweden on 21 July 1995. 7.2 S.M.R. has stated that she obtained her passport without difficulty. In March 1995 she returned it to the authorities in order to have her youngest child registered on it. After being informed that her name resembled the name of a person who was not permitted to leave the country, she was requested to report to the prosecution authority. The prosecution authority discovered that her name was miswritten and decided not to return her passport to her. When she applied for a new passport the authorities made it a condition that she first travel to Syria. The trip was arranged by the authorities as a test in order to prove that she was a true Muslim supporting the regime. The authorities made it an additional condition that she turn in the certificate of registration of title of her house before the trip. Her passport was returned a week before she travelled to Syria with her husband and children.