CAT/C/48/D/453/2011
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
28 June 2012
English
Original: Spanish
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 453/2011
Decision adopted by the Committee at its forty-eighth session, 7 May to
1 June 2012
GE.12-43762 (E)
Submitted by:
Oskartz Gallastegi Sodupe (represented by
counsel, Mr. Julen Arzuaga and Ms. Iratxe
Urizar)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Spain
Date of complaint:
20 January 2011 (initial submission)
Date of decision:
23 May 2012
Subject matter:
Statement obtained under torture
Procedural issues:
None
Substantive issues:
Prompt and impartial investigation,
prohibition of invoking statements obtained
under torture as evidence, right to redress
Articles of the Convention:
12, 14 and 15.
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