United Nations

CCPR/C/126/D/2208/2012

International Covenant on Civil and Political R ights

Distr.: General

4 October 2019

Original: English

Human Rights Committee

Decision adopted by the Committee under the Optional Protocol, concerning communication No. 2208/2012 * , **

Communication submitted by:M.A.A.

A lleged victim:The author

State party:Australia

Date of communication:21 November 2012 (initial submission)

Substantive issue:Deportation to Afghanistan

At its meeting on 25 July 2019, the Committee, in the light of a request from the author’s counsel to discontinue the consideration of the communication and having been informed by the author’s counsel that a new round of domestic remedies had become available to the author during which the merits of his case would be reconsidered, decided to discontinue the consideration of communication No. 2208/2012.