Decision; Subjects: SERBIA, TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL TREATMENT; [CAT: UNO-Antifolterkonvention, Übereinkommen gegen Folter; Convention contre la torture; Convenzione contro la tortura]
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GE.26-03318 (E) 180326 180326 Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 1128/2022*, ** Communication submitted by: O.C. (represented by counsel, Marko Štambuk) Alleged victim: The complainant State Party: Serbia Date of complaint: 25 May 2022 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment upon deportation to Türkiye 1. The communication was submitted by O.C., a national of Türkiye born in 1988. As the State Party had denied his application for asylum, he was facing deportation to Türkiye. He claimed that by deporting him to Türkiye, the State Party would violate his rights under article 3 of the Convention. 2. On 23 May 2022, the communication was registered with the request for interim measures granted. The State Party was requested to refrain from removing the complainant to Türkiye while the communication was pending before the Committee. 3. On 28 June 2022, the Committee was informed by counsel that the complainant had left Serbia and had subsequently been detained in Germany. On 23 June 2025, the Committee sent a request to counsel for information on the situation of the complainant. On 24 June 2025, counsel informed the Committee that contact with the complainant had been lost. 4. On 14 November 2025, the Committee, in the light of the fact that no further information was available about the complainant and that contact with him had been lost, decided to discontinue its consideration of communication No. 1128/2022.
* Adopted by the Committee at its 83rd session (10–28 November 2025). ** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Todd Buchwald, Jorge Contesse, Claude Heller, Erdogan Iscan, Peter Vedel Kessing, Liu Huawen, Maeda Naoko, Ana Racu, Abderrazak Rouwane and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov. United Nations CAT/C/83/D/1128/2022 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 18 March 2026 Original: English