CCPR/C/117/D/2415/2014 to a case brought against the author concerning the sale of Pakistan Steel Mills products at a price below market price and stating that it would be withdrawn if the author paid 3,082 Pakistan rupees. The second document, dated 18 February 2011, appears to be a notice issued by Advocate M.G.D., according to which the author has to pay 404,052.73 rupees as compensation for a financial loss suffered by Pakistan Steel Mills. The third document is identical to the document submitted by the author when he first requested that the Danish Refugee Board reopen the case. In an e-mail dated 7 April 2014, the author adds that the cases had been brought against his company, which had been taken over by force by a commercial director of Pakistan Steel Mills, and in that connection the author had been threatened and arrested. The author further stated that, during his stay in Denmark, he had received a message from the Pakistani intelligence service saying it had been unacceptable for him to leave Pakistan without notifying them. 4.10 The State party submits that the Refugee Appeals Board decision of 4 June 2014 not to reopen the case takes into account that no substantial, new information or views were submitted by the author in addition to the information available at the initial hearing by the Board. The Board observed that it could not accept the author’s statement as grounds for seeking asylum, as he had failed to provide a reasonable explanation for applying for asylum only two and a half years after he had arrived in Denmark or a coherent and convincing statement of his conflict with the intelligence service. It also observed that his statements were divergent in other aspects and that he had departed lawfully from Pakistan using his own national passport. The Board reiterated it could not accept the author’s statement of his grounds for asylum as a fact and found that the documents submitted, in view of the timing of their production, their nature and their contents, seemed fabricated and could not allow a different assessment of the credibility of his grounds for seeking asylum. The Board took into consideration the information provided in the country of origin information published by the British Home Office on 9 August 2013 stating that forged documents are widely used and easy to obtain in Pakistan. 4 4.11 Regarding the legal basis for decisions made by the Danish Refugee Appeals Board, the Board will generally consider that the conditions for issuing a residence permit under section 7 (2)5 of the Aliens Act are met when there are specific and individual factors substantiating that the asylum seeker will be exposed to a real risk of suffering the death penalty or of being subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in case of return to the country of origin. The Aliens Act further provides that any refusal of a claim for asylum must always be accompanied by a decision as to whether the alien in question can be removed from Denmark if he or she does not voluntarily leave the country and that an alien may not be returned to a country where he or she will be at a risk of incurring the death penalty or of being subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or where the alien will not be protected from being sent to such country (sects. 31 and 32a). The State party submits that, to ensure that the Board makes its decisions in accordance with those obligations, it and the Immigration Service have jointly drafted a number of memorandums describing in detail the legal protection of asylum seekers afforded by international law, in particular the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 4 5 Danish Refugee Appeals Board decision of 4 June 2014, p. 2. Under the Aliens Act section 7 (2), a residence permit will be issued to an alien upon application if the alien risks the death penalty or being subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in case of return to the country of origin. 5