CCPR/C/114/D/2017/2010
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
25 September 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 2017/2010
Views adopted by the Committee at its 114th session
(29 June-24 July 2015)
Submitted by:
Andrei Burdyko (represented by counsel,
Roman Kislyak)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Belarus
Date of communication:
17 December 2010 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 92 and rule 97
decision, transmitted to the State party on 17
December 2010 (not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
15 July 2015
Subject matter:
Imposition of a death sentence after unfair trial,
on the basis of confessions obtained under duress
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies; failure of the
State party to cooperate; non-respect of the
Committee’s request for interim measures
Substantive issues:
Death penalty, torture and ill-treatment; habeas
corpus; right to a fair hearing by an independent
and impartial tribunal; right to be presumed
innocent; right not to be compelled to testify
against oneself or to confess guilt
Articles of the Covenant:
6 (1) and (2); 7; 9 (1) and (3); and 14 (1), (2) and
(3) (b), (d) and (g)
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
1, 2, 5 (2) (b)
GE.15-15598(E)
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