CAT/C/53/D/458/2011
Annex
Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22
of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(fifty-third session)
concerning
Communication No. 458/2011
Submitted by:
X. (represented by counsel, Niels-Erik Hansen)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Denmark
Date of complaint:
10 May 2010 (initial submission)
The Committee against Torture, established under article 17 of the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Meeting on 28 November 2014,
Having concluded its consideration of complaint No. 458/2011, submitted to the
Committee by X. under article 22 of the Convention,
Having taken into account all information made available to it by the complainant,
her counsel and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Decision under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention
against Torture
1.1
The complainant is X., a national of Ethiopia, born in 1983. She currently resides in
Denmark. She claims that her return to Ethiopia by Denmark would violate article 3 of the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment. She is represented by counsel.
1.2
On 25 March 2011, 10 May 2012, and 6 March 2013 in application of rule 114,
paragraph 1, of its rules of procedure, the Committee, acting through its Special Rapporteur
on new communications and interim measures, rejected the author’s request.
The facts as presented by the complainant
2.1
The complainant is an unmarried woman of Oromo ethnicity from a small village in
the west of Ethiopia. She claims to have been tortured by the authorities in Ethiopia on
account of her and her father’s political activities in the Oromo Liberation Front. The
complainant’s mother and siblings live in Ethiopia. Her father disappeared after being
arrested by the authorities for his activities in the Oromo Liberation Front, around four
years before the complainant’s arrival to Denmark.
2.2
According to the complainant, her father was a fighter for the Oromo Liberation
Front and collected money for its cause. The complainant also collected money, distributed
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