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 2

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