International investigation with the assistance of the United Nations As to the discussions concerning a possible international inquiry under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, while understanding her concerns, the State party expresses its disappointment that the High Commissioner had found no grounds in which the Office could supplement the Committee against Torture’s assessment and findings in this case and thus her unwillingness to undertake a proposed investigation. The State party has had further contact with the Egyptian authorities who continue to deny the allegations of torture. Their reaction to a proposal for an international commission of enquiry is still awaited. Parliament’s Constitutional Committee In her letter of 26 May 2005 to the Swedish Foreign Minister, the High Commissioner for Human Rights referred to an ongoing investigation undertaken by Parliament’s Constitutional Committee. The investigation was initiated in May 2004 by five members of Parliament, requesting that the Constitutional Committee examine the Government’s handling of the matter that lead to, inter alia, the complainant’s expulsion to Egypt. The Constitutional Committee has requested the Government to answer a number of questions in writing. The State party noted that the report on this investigation was not expected until September 2005, at the earliest. The issue of criminal prosecution As to the public prosecutor’s investigations, the State party informs the Committee that following a complaint from a private individual, a district prosecutor in Stockholm decided on 18 June 2004 not to initiate a preliminary investigation on the issue of whether or not a criminal offence had been committed in connection with the enforcement of the Government’s decision to expel the complainant. The reason for the decision was that there was no ground for assuming that a criminal offence under 113

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