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Torture Committee Files Complaint Against Icelandic State

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The United Nations Committee Against Torture has registered the case of an asylum seeker from Cameroon who was deported to Malta this summer under the Dublin Regulation. The man's lawyer, Brynjólfur Sveinn Ívarsson, says this is a significant milestone, as the committee has only registered 1,260 cases since 1989. Of these, the committee has issued opinions on 523 cases. The Cameroonian was born in 1997 and fled...

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The United Nations Committee Against Torture has registered the case of an asylum seeker from Cameroon who was deported to Malta this summer under the Dublin Regulation. The man's lawyer, Brynjólfur Sveinn Ívarsson, says this is a significant milestone, as the committee has only registered 1,260 cases since 1989. Of these, the committee has issued opinions on 523 cases. The Cameroonian was born in 1997 and fled...

The United Nations Committee against Torture has registered a complaint from a man in his 30s from Cameroon who was deported from Iceland earlier this year under the Dublin Regulation. The man was sent to Malta, where the authorities were supposed to process his application for protection. The man was returned to his home country three days after arriving in Malta, where, according to his lawyer, he was subjected to torture and inhuman treatment…

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heimildin.is broke the news in on Monday, October 27, 2025.
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