CCPR/C/127/D/2956/2017
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
16 December 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Decision adopted by the Committee under the Optional
Protocol, concerning communication No. 2956/2017*, **, ***
Communication submitted by:
B.A. et al. (represented by counsel, Susanna
Paulweber)
Alleged victims:
The authors
State party:
Austria
Date of communication:
8 February 2017 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 92 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 14 February 2017 (not issued
in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
8 November 2019
Subject matters:
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment; deportation to Bulgaria
Procedural issues:
Level of substantiation of claims; non-exhaustion
of domestic remedies; interim measures
Substantive issue:
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment
Articles of the Covenant:
7 and 2 (3) (a), read in conjunction with article 7
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
1 and 2
* Adopted by the Committee at its 127th session (14 October–8 November 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Tania María Abdo Rocholl, Yadh Ben Achour, Ilze Brands Kehris, Arif Bulkan, Ahmed Amin
Fathalla, Schuichi Furuya, Christoph Heyns, Bamariam Koita, Photini Pazartzis, Hernán Quezada
Cabrera, Vasilka Sancin, José Manuel Santos Pais, Yuval Shany, Hélène Tigroudja, Andreas
Zimmermann and Gentian Zyberi.
*** An individual opinion by Committee member Gentian Zyberi (dissenting) is annexed to the present
decision.
GE.19-21680(E)