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UN Committee Against Torture (CAT)

The Committee Against Torture (CAT) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by its State parties.

All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially one year after acceding to the Convention and then every four years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of “concluding observations”.  Website: www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/
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Y (représenté par un conseil, Rêzan Zehrê) v. Suisse

28 January 2022 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Legal Instrument: 1984 Convention against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Convention against Torture (CAT) - Deportation / Forcible return - Eritreans - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Torture | Countries: Eritrea - Switzerland

A.A. v. Sweden

20 January 2022 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Christian - Deportation / Forcible return - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: Afghanistan - Iran, Islamic Republic of - Sweden

A.H c. Suisse

6 December 2018 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Legal Instrument: 1984 Convention against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment | Countries: Ethiopia - Italy - Switzerland

F.B. v. The Netherlands

15 December 2015 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-refoulement | Countries: Guinea - Netherlands

F.M-M. v. Switzerland

1 July 2011 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Convention against Torture (CAT) - Decision on admissibility - Deportation / Forcible return - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Non-refoulement - Rejected asylum-seekers | Countries: Congo, Republic of the - Switzerland

Aboua Brou c. Suisse

43rd session.

10 December 2009 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Convention against Torture (CAT) - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Rejected asylum-seekers | Countries: Côte d'Ivoire - Switzerland

Minani c. Canada

43rd session.

10 December 2009 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Convention against Torture (CAT) - Crimes against humanity - Deportation / Forcible return - Exclusion clauses - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Human rights activists - Rejected asylum-seekers | Countries: Burundi - Canada

Yassin v. Canada

Forty-third session.

10 December 2009 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Armed forces / Military - Complementary forms of protection - Convention against Torture (CAT) - Crimes against humanity - Deportation / Forcible return - Exclusion clauses - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-refoulement - Rejected asylum-seekers | Countries: Canada - Iraq

X v. Australia

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5 May 2009 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Refoulement | Countries: Australia - Lebanon

M.M. et al. v. Sweden

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1 December 2008 | Judicial Body: UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Refoulement | Countries: Azerbaijan - Sweden

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