CCPR/C/114/D/2389/2014 account the asylum seeker’s explanations regarding the inconsistencies, his particular situation, including cultural differences, age and health, and, in case of doubt about the asylum seeker’s credibility, the board assesses the extent to which the principle of the benefit of the doubt should be applied. 4.6 The State party argues that the refugee appeals board thoroughly reviewed the author’s case and found that he had failed to establish that there were substantial grounds for believing that he would be at risk of being subject to persecution or asylum-relevant abuse if returned to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The State party notes that the author has not provided the Committee with any new essential information or views on his circumstances beyond those already relied upon in the refugee appeals board decision of 18 March 2014. The State party considers that the author is trying to use the Committee as an appellate body to have the factual circumstances advocated in support of his claim for asylum reassessed by the Committee. 4.7 The State party notes that there are no grounds for doubting the assessment made by the refugee appeals board that there is no available information that the author would be at risk of abuse constituting a breach of article 7 of the Covenant if he is returned to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The State party refers to two reports15 according to which formerly active opponents of the Iranian regime, including members of the Mujaheddin e Khalq organization, have voluntarily returned from Iraq to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The State party cites other sources quoted in the reports indicating that Iranian Kurdish political activists who used to live in Kurdish Northern Iraq went back to the Islamic Republic of Iran and that, in most of the cases, after a period of investigation by the Iranian authorities, including sometimes imprisonment, they were able to have a normal life. Furthermore, a small group of children of refugees who had lived in the Kurdish region in Iraq for three decades before returning to the Islamic Republic of Iran were registered without problems and without being exposed to any risk. At the same time, sources also indicated that refugees from Al-Tash with political affiliations who returned to the Islamic Republic of Iran should expect problems. The State party informs the Committee that the refugee appeals board was aware that several sources in the available background information referred to the fact that Iranian nationals from the Al-Tash and Barika refugee camps may expect to become object of general attention of the Iranian authorities if returned there. However, the State party considers that becoming the object of general attention of the Iranian authorities is not sufficient to substantiate a real risk of being subject to torture or ill-treatment. 4.8 Based on an overall assessment of the author’s specific circumstances and the relevant background material, the State party concludes that the fact that the author was born and raised in the Al-Tash refugee camp and that he later stayed at the Barika refugee camp does not in itself entail that the author will be at a particular risk of being subject to treatment contrary to article 7 of the Covenant. This applies even if the author may become an object of general attention by the authorities if returned to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The State party notes that there is no available information that Iranian nationals from the Al-Tash or Barika refugee camps have been subjected to abuse by the Iranian authorities after their return to the Islamic Republic of Iran. 15 Danish Immigration Service, Landinfo and the Danish Refugee Council, Iran: On Conversion to Christianity, Issues concerning Kurds and post-2009 election protestors as well as legal issues and exit procedures, 2013; and Danish Immigration Services and the Danish Refugee Council, Iranian Kurds: On conditions for Iranian Kurdish Parties in Iran and the Kurdish region in Iraq, Activities in the Kurdish Area of Iran, Conditions in Border Area and Situation of Returnees from the Kurdish region in Iraq to Iran, 30 May to 9 June 2013. 7