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interim measures, who regularly monitors the compliance by States parties with such
requests.
C.
Progress of work
58.
As at 15 May 2020, the Committee had registered, since 1989, 1,003 complaints
concerning 39 States parties.10 Of those, 300 complaints had been discontinued and 113 had
been declared inadmissible. The Committee had adopted final decisions on the merits on 398
complaints and found violations of the Convention in 158 of them. During the reporting
period, the Committee adopted two decisions of admissibility, and postponed the
examination of three complaints. Some 192 complaints were pending consideration. All the
Committee’s decisions on the merits, those declaring a complaint inadmissible and
discontinuance decisions can be found in the treaty body case law database
(http://juris.ohchr.org/), on the OHCHR website (www.ohchr.org/) and the Official
Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org/prod/ods.nsf/home.xsp).
59.
At its sixty-seventh session, the Committee adopted decisions on the merits in respect
of five communications. In A v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (CAT/C/67/D/854/2017), the
Committee found a violation of article 14 (1), in conjunction with article 1 (1), of the
Convention as the State party had failed to provide redress, including fair and adequate
compensation, for the complainant, who had been found to be a victim of rape as a war crime
against the civilian population committed during the armed conflict. In Ayaz v. Serbia
(CAT/C/67/D/857/2017), the Committee concluded that the State party’s removal of the
complainant to Turkey, despite a request for interim measures, constituted a violation of
articles 3 and 22 of the Convention. The Committee found that the forcible returns of the
complainants would not constitute a violation of article 3 of the Convention by the States
parties in its decisions in V.M. v. Australia (CAT/C/67/D/723/2015), X v. Switzerland
(CAT/C/67/D/775/2016) and X, Y and others v. Sweden (CAT/C/67/D/816/2017).
60.
The Committee also found four communications, V.P. v. Russian Federation
(CAT/C/67/D/780/2016 and Corr.1), X v. Canada (CAT/C/67/D/791/2016), M.Z. v. Belgium
(CAT/C/67/D/813/2017) and B.K. v. Switzerland (CAT/C/67/D/828/2017), inadmissible, and
one communication, A v. Morocco (No. 871/2018), admissible, and discontinued the
consideration of J.S. v. Canada (CAT/C/67/D/665/2015), J.D. v. Switzerland
(CAT/C/67/D/700/2015), G.S. v. Canada (CAT/C/67/D/786/2016), M.S. v. Canada
(CAT/C/67/D/787/2016), S.S. v. Netherlands (CAT/C/67/D/800/2017), J.N. v. Australia
(CAT/C/67/D/806/2017), D.M. v. Finland (CAT/C/67/D/844/2017), B.S. v. Canada
(CAT/C/67/D/849/2017) and J.E. et al. v. Sweden (CAT/C/67/D/906/2018). The Committee
also decided to postpone the examination of two complaints, E.C. v. Ireland (No. 879/2018)
and E.I.M. et al. v. Sweden (No. 773/2016) for the subsequent session.
61.
At its sixty-eighth session, on 29 November 2019, the Committee held an exchange
of views with the European Court of Human Rights, represented by Judge Carlo Ranzoni,
the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, represented by Judge Rafâa Ben Achour
(via videoconference) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, represented by Carlos
E. Gaio (via videoconference). At that meeting, which was generously supported by the René
Cassin Foundation/International Institute of Human Rights, participants discussed the
extraterritorial effects of the conventions and ratione temporis competence of the organs to
assess admissibility requirements, and the relevant jurisprudence. During the session, the
Committee adopted decisions on the merits in respect of 10 communications. In Khater v.
Morocco (CAT/C/68/D/782/2016), the Committee concluded that the extradition of the
complainant to Egypt by the State party would constitute a violation of article 3 of the
Convention, and that the lack of fundamental legal safeguards and the detention conditions
of the complainant amounted to a violation of article 16 of the Convention. In Aarrass v.
Morocco (CAT/C/68/D/817/2017), the Committee found that the detention conditions of the
complainant, including the de facto solitary confinement imposed on the complainant
amounted to a violation of article 16 and of article 2 (1), read in conjunction with articles 1
and 11 of the Convention, and that the lack of redress provided to the complainant for his illtreatment amounted to a violation of article 14 of the Convention. In Bakay v. Morocco
10
The complaints examined by the Committee in relation to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well
as to Serbia and Montenegro, are attributed to Serbia for statistical purposes.
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