CCPR/C/109/D/1910/2009
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5,
paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (109th session)
concerning
Communication No. 1910/2009 *
Submitted by:
Svetlana Zhuk (represented by counsel, Raman
Kisliak)
Alleged victim:
Andrei Zhuk (son of the author)
State party:
Belarus
Date of communication:
27 October 2009 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 30 October 2013,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 1910/2009, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Svetlana Zhuk on behalf of her son, Andrei Zhuk, under
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Having taken into account all written information made available to it by the author
of the communication and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Views under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol
1.1
The author of the communication is Svetlana Zhuk. She submits the communication
on behalf of her son, Andrei Zhuk, a Belarusian national born in 1983, who at the time of
the submission of the communication was detained on death row in Minsk, after being
sentenced to death by the Criminal Division of the Minsk Regional Court on 17 July 2009.
The author claims that her son is a victim of violations by Belarus of his rights under
articles 6 (paras. 1 and 2), 7, 9 (para. 3), and 14, (paras. 1, 2 and 3 (b), (d) and (g)), of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 1 The author is represented by counsel,
Raman Kisliak.
1.2
When registering the communication on 30 October 2009, and pursuant to rule 92 of
its rules of procedure, the Committee, acting through its Special Rapporteur on new
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The following Committee members participated in the examination of the present communication:
Mr. Yadh Ben Achour, Mr. Ahmad Amin Fathalla, Mr. Kheshoe Parsad Matadeen, Sir Nigel Rodley,
Mr. Fabián Omar Salvioli, Mr. Yuval Shany, Mr. Konstantine Vardzelashvili, Mr. Lazhari Bouzid,
Mr. Walter Kälin, Mr. Cornelis Flinterman, Ms. Zonke Zanele Majodina, Mr. Gerald L. Neuman, Mr.
Víctor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Ms. Anja Seibert-Fohr and Ms. Margo Waterval.
The Optional Protocol entered into force for the State party on 30 December 1992.
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