CAT/C/46/D/310/2007 consistent pattern of gross, flagrant or mass violations of human rights, the aim of the determination is to establish whether the individual concerned would be personally at risk of being subjected to torture in his or her country of origin. By reference to several human rights reports, the State party acknowledges that the, albeit somewhat improved, human rights situation in Syria continues to be problematic. At the same time, it recalls that such situation does not in itself suffice to establish that the forced return of the complainant was or would be in violation of article 3. In assessing whether the complainant faced or would face a foreseeable, real and personal risk of being subjected to torture on return to Syria, due weight must be attached to the credibility of his statements before the domestic authorities. 4.4 The State party submits that the complainant made incorrect, incomplete and contradictory statements about his nationality, age and family on several occasions: (a) In his application for a resident and work permit in 1990, he stated that he was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1964, that is parents were of unknown citizenship and lived in Beirut, and that he had eight brothers and sisters, one of whom was Gabi C., who lived in Syria; (b) During a supplementary investigation by the police in May 1991, he denied that he and his siblings came from Syria; (c) During the criminal proceedings in 1991 and the proceedings concerning his applications for revocation of the expulsion order in 1993 and 1996, he claimed that he was a stateless Christian Syrian, born in Lebanon, brought up in the home of an older sister in Beirut, and unaware of the fate of his parents; (d) During an interview in 1996, he denied that he was a Syrian citizen and stated that he had never seen his parents or been to Syria. 4.5 According to an inquiry report dated 17 June 1992 prepared by the Swedish Embassy in Damascus at the request of the Swedish police, the complainant was born in Malkie, northern Syria, as the son of Ibrahim C. and Myriam Y.; he had no brother named Gabi and left Syria at the age of 12 for Lebanon where he staid for eight years until he went to Sweden. An excerpt from the Syrian family registry provided to the Swedish Embassy in 1996 contains information about a family called Chahin, registered as 773/Malkie, and consisting of two parents and 10 children, including one Anton Chahin born in 1968. However, it was not until the enforcement of the expulsion order in 1997 and his return to Sweden in 2003, that the complainant stated that he had been in possession of a Syrian passport and that he was a Syrian citizen born in Syria. In his November 2004 application for revocation of the expulsion order, he mentioned that his parents and siblings lived in Syria. 4.6 The State party submits that the complainant also provided contradictory information about his journey to Sweden: (a) After initially stating that the time of his arrival in Sweden was August or September 1990, the complainant, in his August 1993 application for revocation of the expulsion order, changed that date to October 1990; (b) In his November 2004 application for revocation of the expulsion order, he referred to the records of his examination at the Centre for Treatment of Crisis and Trauma Victims, according to which he had travelled back and forth between Lebanon and Sweden from 1984 to 1987 and, after two more years in Lebanon, had settled in Sweden in 1989; (c) In his communication to the Committee, he repeated that he had arrived in Sweden in 1989; 7