CCPR/C/116/D/1941/2010
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
28 April 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4)
of the Optional Protocol, concerning communication
No. 1941/2010*,**
Communication submitted by:
Vladimir Vasilievich Neporozhnev
(not represented by counsel)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Russian Federation
Date of communication:
21 March 2010 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 97 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 14 May 2010 (not issued in a
document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
11 March 2016
Subject matter:
Allegations of torture in pretrial detention not
investigated adequately by the State party and
unfair trial
Procedural issues:
Admissibility – exhaustion of domestic
remedies; admissibility – manifestly ill-founded
Substantive issues:
Effective remedy, fair trial, torture – prompt and
impartial investigation
Articles of the Covenant:
2 (1) and (3) (a), (b) and (c), 7, 14 (1), (2), (3)
(d), (e) and (g) and (5) and 15 (2)
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
2 and 5 (2) (a) and (b)
* Adopted by the Committee at its 116th session (7-31 March 2016).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Duncan Laki Muhumuza,
Mauro Politi, Sir Nigel Rodley, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli,
Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
GE.16-06957(E)