CCPR/C/114/D/2183/2012
Annex
Decision of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (114th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2183/2012*
Submitted by:
M.G. (not represented)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Poland
Date of communication:
5 April 2012 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 23 July 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2183/2012, submitted to
it by M.G. 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:
Decision on admissibility
1.
The author is M.G., a Polish national born in 1941, who claims to be a victim of
violations, by Poland, of his rights under articles 7, 9 (5) and 10 (1) of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Optional Protocol entered into force for the
State party on 7 February 1992.1 The author is not represented.
The facts as presented by the author
2.1
The author served a prison sentence at the Detention Centre of Warsaw-Mokotow
from 28 February to 8 October 2007, after having been found guilty of fraud by the Warsaw
District Court on 26 October 2006. He underwent his first medical examination three days
* The following members of the Committee participated in the consideration of the present
1
2
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, 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, Dheerujlall Seetulsingh, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany,
Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
On acceding to the Optional Protocol, the State party made a reservation to article 5 (2) (a) of the
Protocol “that would exclude the procedure set out in article 5 (2) (a), in cases where the matter has
already been examined under another procedure of international investigation or settlement”.