CAT/C/61/D/625/2014 about Islam and Christianity with a mullah, during an event held at the Christian Study Centre of Islamabad. The mullah verbally threatened the complainant. Later, on 15 January 2010, the complainant’s car was stolen and three days later, he received a letter threatening him with “serious consequences” if he continued to preach the Bible.2 2.2 On 10 August 2011, the complainant was attacked and beaten by three unknown men while he was driving his taxi. He indicates that the three men got into the taxi and asked him to stop at a place called Bani Gala. There, the three men hit him on the head with a rock and cut his wrist. The complainant claims that the men told him that this was the consequence of not having stopped preaching his “false God”. He lost consciousness and woke up at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, where he stayed for approximately 10 days.3 2.3 The complainant further indicates that on an unspecified date, four police officers attacked him while he was in his taxi at the taxi stand. They blindfolded him and took him to a police station where they beat him, hung him from the ceiling upside down and plugged water into his nose. They accused the complainant of distributing the Bible among Muslim people and told him that he should accept Islam. Then, they falsely accused him of illegal alcohol possession, alleging that he was hiding 24 bottles of alcohol in his taxi. As a consequence, the complainant was charged and detained. After being detained for about one week, he was released on bail paid by the President of the Jesus Hope of Life organization. The complainant indicates that he has visible scars on his forehead, arms and legs as a result of this incident.4 2.4 The complainant further states that on 3 January 2014, he received a letter at his home threatening to kill him and his family. Consequently, he moved his spouse and children from Islamabad to Faisalabad where his wife’s parents live and he left Pakistan. In his interview with the Danish Refugee Appeals Board, he indicated that after he had left Pakistan, a number of persons had contacted his family asking about his whereabouts, and that his family was therefore considering moving to another location. The author claims that he has not sought protection from the authorities in Pakistan because they do not protect Christians: for example, in 2014, a Christian boy was killed in a police station and the authorities did not take any action. 2.5 On 12 February 2014, the complainant entered Denmark without valid travel documents. On an unspecified date, he applied for asylum. On 23 May 2014, the Danish Immigration Service rejected his asylum claim and refused to grant him a residence permit. On 4 August 2014, the Refugee Appeals Board confirmed the decision of the Immigration Service and rejected his asylum claim. The Board found that the complainant’s explanations were constructed for the occasion. It found that it was unlikely that the complainant had been persecuted because of his religion in Pakistan, taking into account that the alleged incidents linked to such persecution took place “every year or year and a half”. In addition, the Board considered that, although the complainant had made consistent statements regarding the events claimed as his grounds for asylum, he had given very vague and evasive answers when asked about certain details. For instance, when his car was stolen, the complainant reported the theft to the police, but he did not report the threatening letter he had received. When asked why he did not, he replied that it was because the police officers were Muslims and therefore they would not protect him. The Board also found that the complainant’s statements regarding the threatening letter dated 15 January 2010 were not consistent with the letter produced during the hearing before the Board: in his interviews with the Immigration Service, the complainant indicated that the letter was 2 3 4 2 also been the object of threats that had forced its members to change their names and the location of their offices. The complainant does not provide further details on this incident and has not provided the threatening letter to the Committee. The complainant does not provide any document to support this allegation. The complainant provides a picture of his scars and a medical certificate from the Mother and Child Health Care Centre (Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad), dated 20 August 2011, which indicates that, on 10 august 2011, the complainant was admitted at the centre and that he had a femur fracture and injuries to his left hand and forehead. Owing to the seriousness of his injuries, he was in critical condition that required surgery.