CCPR/C/128/D/3018/2017
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
28 May 2020
English
Original: Spanish
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the
Optional Protocol, concerning communication
No. 3018/2017*, **, ***
Communication submitted by:
Simón Mora Carrero and Alcedo Guaicamacuto
Mora Carrero, on their own behalf and on behalf
of their missing father, Alcedo Mora Márquez
(represented by the Venezuelan Programme for
Education and Action on Human Rights
(PROVEA))
Alleged victims:
The authors and Alcedo Mora Márquez
State party:
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Date of communication:
28 June 2016
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 92 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 28 August 2017 (not issued in
document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
11 March 2020
Subject matter:
Disappearance
Procedural issue:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Right to an effective remedy; right to life;
prohibition of torture and cruel and inhuman
treatment; right to liberty and security of person;
right of persons deprived of their liberty to be
treated with humanity; recognition as a person
before the law
Articles of the Covenant:
2 (3), 6 (1), 7, 9, 10, 16
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
5 (2) (b)
1.
The authors of the communication, dated 28 June 2016, are Simón Mora Carrero and
Alcedo Guaicamacuto Mora Carrero, who are brothers. Both are Venezuelan nationals and
of legal age. The authors are acting on their own behalf and on behalf of Alcedo Mora
* Adopted by the Committee at its 128th session (2–27 March 2020).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Yadh Ben Achour, Arif Bulkan, Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Christof Heyns, Bamariam Koita, Marcia V.J.
Kran, Duncan Laki Muhumuza, Photini Pazartzis, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, Vasilka Sancin, José
Manuel Santos Pais, Yuval Shany, Hélène Tigroudja, Andreas Zimmermann and Gentian Zyberi.
*** Two individual opinions by three Committee members (dissenting) are annexed to the present Views.
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