CAT/C/53/D/458/2011 leaflets and t-shirts. Because of her father’s and her own activities in the Oromo Liberation Front, the complainant submits that she was imprisoned several times between the age of 17 and 24 and exposed to torture. According to the complainant, during her arrests she was beaten, her nipples were clamped and her breasts were pulled in opposite directions, her vagina lips were covered with burning pepper, she was forced to stand barefoot or kneel on sharp gravel for several hours with weight on her arms and shoulders. Because of the brutal treatment the complainant suffered, she does not remember the specific dates and places of detention. It was her impression that the authorities wanted to get information from her about people working for the Oromo Liberation Front. They released her in order to collect new information and then to detain and torture her again. 2.3 Her escape from Ethiopia was arranged in August 2007. However, the escape was organized with an agent who turned out to be involved in human trafficking, and the complainant was raped on the way to Scandinavia by him and other men. The Danish Refugee Appeals Board, in its decision of 17 October 2008, found in this connection that the complainant had been exposed to sexual abuse. 2.4 The complainant arrived in Denmark on 1 September 2007 and applied for asylum on the same day. The Danish Immigration Service rejected her asylum request on 9 June 2008 and ordered her deportation. Its decision was upheld by the Danish Refugee Appeals Board on 17 October 2008. On 25 February 2009, the complainant requested the Refugee Appeals Board to reopen the case, submitting that there had been a misunderstanding during the interview with the police at the beginning of the asylum proceedings owing to her mental state and interpreting problems. On 9 June 2009, the complainant submitted to the Refugee Appeals Board a report dated 2 June 2009 of the Amnesty International medical group. On 13 January 2010, the complainant informed the Refugee Appeals Board that, while preparing her departure, she was not able to locate her family and feared that they had been killed in a massacre against the Oromo population. On 4 March 2010, the Refugee Appeals Board reaffirmed its original decision of 18 October 2008. It stated that the complainant’s motive for asylum raised substantial doubts, even taking into account the available information about the complainant’s health and the allegation that her family had been imprisoned in connection with the imprisonment of her father. The Board stated that there had been no asylum-relevant persecution when the complainant left Ethiopia because, from her alleged arrest four years before her arrival in Denmark until the time of departure, the complainant, her mother and brothers had had no problems with the authorities. The complainant left Ethiopia because her mother had arranged for her to be taken from the country by a man whom the complainant did not know. The Refugee Appeals Board did not find the complainant to be in danger of persecution upon return to Ethiopia on the basis of her Oromo ethnicity, despite the assaults against the Oromo population allegedly perpetrated by the Gumuz militia in May 2008. The Board also rejected the complainant’s allegation of interpreting problems. The Board rejected the complainant’s request that the case be reopened, on the grounds that essentially no new information had been submitted. It also stated that the Amnesty International medical group report could not be considered because of the late submission, which the complainant failed to justify. On 10 February 2011, the complainant was informed by the Immigration Service that there was no reason to extend the date of her departure further. 2.5 In the Amnesty International medical group report of 2 June 2009, the physical findings were said to be compatible with the torture forms described by the complainant. The scars on her knees and under her legs and feet supported her claim that she had been made to stand barefoot or kneel for several hours on sharp gravel with weights on her arms and shoulders. The headache, bodily pains and abdominal pains and infections suffered by 3