CCPR/C/115/D/1895/2009
Annex
Decision of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (115th session)
concerning
Communication No. 1895/2009
Submitted by:
S.R. (not represented by counsel)
Alleged victims:
A.B.K. (his wife), N.U.R. (his daughter),
S.B.R. (his daughter) and the author
State party:
Belgium
Date of communication:
9 July 2009 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 2 November 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 1895/2009, submitted
to the Human Rights Committee on behalf of S.R. et al. 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 of the communication, which is dated 9 July 2009 (as supplemented
by a submission of 10 August 2009), is S.R. (principal author), a Rwandan national of
Hutu ethnicity, who was born in 1978 in Bukavu (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
He also submits the communication on behalf of his wife, A.B.K. ( second author), and
their two children, N.U.R. and S.B.R., who were born on 28 February 2007 and 8
April 2008 respectively. He claims to be a victim of violations by the State party of
articles 2 (1), 3, 7, 16, 23 (1), 24 and 26 of the Covenant. The Covenant entered into
force for Belgium on 21 July 1983 and the Optional Protocol thereto on 17 August
1994.
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The following members of the Committee participated in the consideration of the present
communication: Mr. Yadh Ben Achour, Mr. Lazhari Bouzid, Ms. Sarah Cleveland, Mr. Ahmed Amin
Fathalla, Mr. Olivier de Frouville, Mr. Yuji Iwasawa, Ms. Ivana Jelić, Mr. Duncan Laki Muh umuza,
Ms. Photini Pazartzis, Mr. Mauro Politi, Sir Nigel Rodley, Mr. Víctor Manuel Rodríguez -Rescia,
Mr. Fabián Omar Salvioli, Mr. Dheerujlall Seetulsingh, Ms. Anja Seibert-Fohr, Mr. Yuval Shany,
Mr. Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Ms. Margo Waterval.
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