CCPR/C/114/D/2017/2010
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5,
paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political rights (114th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2017/2010*
Submitted by:
Andrei Burdyko (represented by counsel,
Roman Kislyak)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Belarus
Date of communication:
17 December 2010 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 15 July 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2017/2010, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Andrei Burdyko under the Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Having taken into account all written information made available to it by the author
of the communication and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Views under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol
1.1
The author of the communication is Andrei Burdyko, a Belarus national born in
1981 who, at the time of the submission of the communication, was being detained on death
row in Minsk after being sentenced to death by the Grodno Regional Court on 14 May
2010. The author claimed to be a victim of violation by Belarus of his rights under articles
6 (1) and (2); 7; 9 (1) and (3); and 14 (1), (2) and (3) (b), (d) and (g) of the Covenant. The
Optional Protocol entered into force for the State party on 30 December 1992. The author is
represented by counsel.
1.2
When registering the communication on 17 December 2010, and pursuant to rule 92
of its rules of procedure, the Committee, acting through its Special Rapporteur on new
communications and interim measures, requested the State party not to carry out the death
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Olivier de Frouville, Ahmed
Amin Fathalla, Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Duncan Muhumuza Laki, Photini Pazartzis, Mauro Politi,
Sir Nigel Rodley, Victor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Dheerujlall Seetulsingh,
Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
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