CCPR/C/115/D/2304/2013
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
9 December 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 2304/2013
Views adopted by the Committee at its 115th session
(19 October-6 November 2015)
Submitted by:
Dzhakishev Mukhtar (represented by counsel
from Grosvenor Law)
Alleged victim:
Dzhakishev Mukhtar
State party:
Kazakhstan
Date of communication:
9 July 2013 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 12 November
2013 (not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
6 November 2015
Subject matter:
The author’s illegal detention, condition of
detention, and subsequent unfair trial
Procedural issue:
Admissibility (exhaustion of domestic remedies)
Substantive issues:
Torture, pretrial detention, conditions of
detention, deprivation of liberty, fair trial
Articles of the Covenant:
6 (1); 7 and 9 (1-5); 10 (1); 14 (1), (2) and (3)
(a), (b), (d) and (e)
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
1 and 5 (2) (b)
GE.15-21521(E)
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