CCPR/C/115/D/2289/2013
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5 (4) of
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (115th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2289/2013*
Submitted by:
Pavel Selyun (represented by counsel,
Andrei Paluda)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Belarus
Date of communication:
27 September 2013 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 6 November 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2289/2013, submitted to
it by Pavel Selyun 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 (4) of the Optional Protocol
1.1
The author of the communication is Pavel Selyun, a Belarus national born in 1990,
who at the time of the submission of the communication was detained on death row in
Minsk, after having been sentenced to death by the Grodno Regional Court on 12 June
2013. The author claimed to be a victim of violation, by Belarus, of his rights under
article 6 (1) and (2), article 7, article 9 (1)-(4) and article 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 2 October 2013, 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 consideration of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Olivier de Frouville,
Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Duncan Laki Muhumuza, Photini Pazartzis, Mauro Politi, Sir Nigel
Rodley, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany,
Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
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