CAT/C/51/D/441/2010
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
17 December 2013
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 441/2010
Decision adopted by the Committee at its fifty-first session,
28 October to 22 November 2013
Submitted by:
Alleged victim:
Mr. Oleg Evloev (represented by the Kazakhstan
International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule
of Law)
The complainant
State party:
Kazakhstan
Date of complaint:
20 December 2010 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
5 November 2013
Subject matter:
Failure to carry out a prompt and impartial
investigation into allegations of torture, to bring
perpetrators to justice, provide full and adequate
reparation, forced confessions.
Substantive issues:
Torture; severe pain or suffering; effective
measures to prevent torture; right to complain to,
and to have one’s case promptly and impartially
examined by the authorities; right to fair and
adequate compensation, confessions obtained
under duress.
Procedural issue:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Articles of the Convention:
1, 2, 12, 13, 14 and 15
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