CAT/C/59/D/686/2015 obliged to spend 17 hours a day in a cell with no possibilities of exercising. 22 He further indicates that, despite his reiterated requests to the authorities, he has not been able to talk to a psychologist or a psychiatrist and has not been assigned a defence lawyer.23 5.2 On 4 December 2015, the complainant submitted his comments on the State party’s observations. However, the envelope received by the Committee only contained the first four pages and blank pages. On 21 December 2015, upon the request of the Secretariat, the complainant submitted the full version of his comments. 5.3 With respect to his transfer between the Cantons of Vaud and Ticino, the complainant challenges the State party’s statements in relation to some of the documents from the Public Prosecutor of Ticino. 24 He alleges that the State party mixes up two different proceedings: the proceedings regarding his complaint alleging that he was subjected to torture and ill-treatment during his transfer between Vaud and Ticino Cantons on 26 June 2014, and the proceedings related to the complaint initiated against him on 4 July 2014.25 He indicates that the file numbers are different 26 and that the decision of nonconsideration of 25 August 2014 concerned the proceedings related to the complaint presented against him, not to his complaint of torture, which he presented on 26 June 2014. He also considers suspicious that one of the documents (contained in annex 27) does not identify the person who signed it on behalf of the Public Prosecutor, while all other decisions were signed by the Public Prosecutor with his own name and stamp. Therefore, he considers that the State party’s statement that he did not exhaust all available domestic remedies is not correct. He also argues that he did not receive any notification of the decision regarding the handwritten complaint he submitted upon his arrival to La Farera on 26 June 2014 as to the torture he suffered during his transfer between the Cantons of Vaud and Ticino.27 5.4 In relation to his transfer between the Cantons of Ticino and of Bern on 5 January 2015, the complainant submits that he appealed the 22 June 2015 decision of the Supreme Court of Bern to the Federal Court. 28 However, on 17 July 2015, he received a letter from the Federal Court indicating that his envelope contained blank papers and that his appeal 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 10 No further information has been provided. The complainant has provided a copy of a decision of the judge for coercive measures, dated 11 December 2015, which indicates that a lawyer was appointed for the proceedings related to his administrative detention and that he should be notified of that appointment. The complainant submits that when he tried to contact the lawyer, the lawyer denied having been appointed to represent him. The complainant refers to three documents, contained in annexes, provided by the State party: a document issued by the Public Prosecutor of Ticino, J.N., dated 25 August 2014, in which the Public Prosecutor indicates having issued a decision of non-consideration regarding a complaint against the complainant dated 4 July 2014 (annex 26); a document issued by the Public Prosecutor of Ticino, dated 27 August 2014 (the person who signs is not identified), in which it is indicated that there was a mistake in the heading of the decision dated 25 August 2014, which should have said that the complaint was being submitted against “unknown persons” instead of against “the complainant” (annex 27); and a document issued by the Public Prosecutor of Ticino, J.N., dated 27 July 2015 indicating that the decision adopted by the Public Prosecutor on 25 August 2014 had not been appealed (annex 28). No further details have been provided. In annexes 26 and 28 (see footnote 39 above), the file number is 2593/2014; in annex 27, it is 6389/2014. The complainant states that the document contained in annex 24, dated 4 July 2014, which has been identified by the State party as his complaint regarding the torture he allegedly suffered during the transfer, is not his real complaint. He submits that the document is a request he made to get a medical visit to demonstrate that he had been tortured on 26 June 2014. The date has not been provided.

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