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) *1521521*

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