CCPR/C/112/D/1773/2008
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
14 January 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 1773/2008
Views adopted by the Committee at its 112th session
(7–31 October 2014)
Submitted by:
Olga Kozulina (represented by counsel)
Alleged victims:
The author’s father, Alexander Kozulin
State party:
Belarus
Date of communication:
11 October 2007 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 26 March 2008
(not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of decision:
21 October 2014
Subject matter:
Ill-treatment, arbitrary arrest; conditions of
detention; presumption of innocence; fair trial
guarantees; defence rights; freedom of assembly
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Liberty and security of person; conditions of
detention; fair trial; right to participate in a
peaceful assembly
Articles of the Covenant:
7; 9; 10; 14 (1), (2) and (3) (b)–(e); 21
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
5 (2) (b)
GE.15-00429 (E)