CAT/C/67/D/780/2016
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
4 September 2019
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 780/2016*, **
Communication submitted by:
V.P. (not represented by counsel)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Russian Federation
Date of complaint:
21 July 2016 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 115 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 11 November 2016
Date of present decision:
26 July 2019
Subject matter:
Ill-treatment by staff in prison hospital
Procedural issues:
Lack of substantiation of claims; non-exhaustion
of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Torture and ill-treatment
Articles of the Convention:
1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 12 and 13
1.
The complainant is V.P., a national of the Russian Federation born in 1991. He
claims that the Russian Federation violated his rights under articles 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 12 and 13
of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment.
The facts as submitted by the complainant
2.1
On 2 November 2011, the Kirov district court in Krasnoyarsk found the complainant
guilty of murder and infliction of bodily injury and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. The
district court considered, inter alia, the complainant’s forensic psychiatric evaluation and
found him fit for trial.
2.2
On 11 June 2015, the complainant was admitted to penitentiary hospital No. 1
(KTB-1) in the Krasnoyarsk region in order to be treated for high blood pressure. Upon
admission to the hospital, he was taken to ward No. 6 (psychiatric unit) and stayed there
* Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-seventh session (22 July–9 August 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the consideration of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu and Diego RodríguezPinzón. Pursuant to rule 109, read in conjunction with rule 15 of the Committee’s rules of procedure,
and article 10 of the guidelines on the independence and impartiality of members of the human rights
treaty bodies (Addis Ababa Guidelines), Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov did not participate in the
examination of the communication.
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