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European Court of Human Rights on the basis that it “did not disclose any appearance
of a violation of the rights and freedoms set out in the Convention or its Protocols”.
Therefore, the State party contends that present communication is inadmissible in
accordance with article 4, paragraph 2 (a) of the Optional Protocol.
4.4The State party further submits that the present communication is both not
sufficiently substantiated and manifestly ill-founded. The communication is allegedly
not sufficiently substantiated as it is based on the same facts as the asylum claim
considered and rejected by the national authorities; and does not explain the legal
basis on which the author could claim a breach of the Convention by the State party
in the way its national authorities treated her asylum and human rights case or in the
way the author (and their children) are being treated while residing in the United
Kingdom on a temporary basis. The author does not make any assertion that the State
party is responsible for any breaches of the author’s Convention rights that may or
may not have occurred in her country of origin, which is a State party to the
Convention. The author has not identified the Convention provision she is relying on
in her communication or before the national authorities and European Court of
Human Right and both have considered and rejected her assertion that her removal to
Pakistan creates “substantial grounds for believing that there is a real risk” of a
violation of her right not to be tortured or subjected to inhuman or degrading
treatment of punishment. In addition, the author has produced no new facts or
arguments to refute this assessment.
4.5 For the reasons set out above, the State party submits that the communication is
inadmissible under article 4(1) and/or article 4(2) of the Optional Protocol.
The author’s comments on the State party’s observations on admissibility
5.1 By her submission of 25 July 2006, the author reiterates the following contention : that
she and her two children were victims of brutalities by her husband; that after the family
court ruled in her favour for divorce, her ex-husband attempted to kill her and to snatch the
children from her; that she had no adequate protection from the Pakistani authorities; and
that as a consequence, she had no other option but to save herself and her children by
leaving her relatives and her country to seek refuge in the United Kingdom. She claims she
is now living free from fear and only wants the best future and education for her children.
5.2 The author claims that on 31 July 2004 she was refused permission from the
Immigration Appeal Tribunal to appeal the decision of the Adjudicator. She also claims that
she challenged the decision of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal by applying for Statutory
Review but that the High Court dismissed it on 14 October 2004. Furthermore, she contends
that the High Court decision indicated that the decision was final and that no appeal was
possible. The author nevertheless applied on 7 December 2005 for judicial review to the
Civil Appeal Office of the Royal Court but her application was rejected on 9 December
2005. The author further claims she had exhausted all remedies in relation to her application
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