CCPR/C/113/D/2013/2010
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5 (4) of
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (113th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2013/2010*
Submitted by:
Oleg Grishkovtsov (represented by counsel,
Roman Kislyak)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Belarus
Date of communication:
6 December 2010 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 1 April 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2013/2010, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Oleg Grishkovtsov 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 (4) of the Optional Protocol
1.1
The communication was submitted on behalf of Oleg Grishkovtsov (“the author”), a
Belarusian national born in 1980 who, at the time of the submission of the communication,
was detained on death row in Minsk, after having been sentenced to death by the Grodno
Regional Court on 14 May 2010. Counsel claims the author to be a victim of a violation, by
Belarus, of his rights under articles 6 (1–2), 7, 9 (1–4) and 14 (1, 2 and 3 (a), (b), (d) and
(g)) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Optional Protocol
entered into force for the State party on 30 December 1992. The author is represented by
counsel.
1.2
When registering the communication on 6 December 2010, and pursuant to rule 92
of its rules of procedure, the Committee, acting through its Special Rapporteur on new
communications and interim measures, requested the State party not to carry out the death
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Olivier de Frouville,
Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Duncan Laki Muhumuza, Photini Pazartzis,
Mauro Politi, Sir Nigel Rodley, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Dheerujlall
Seetulsingh, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
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