CCPR/C/112/D/2051/2011
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
26 November 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 2051/2011
Views adopted by the Committee at its 112th session
(7–31 October 2014)
Submitted by:
Jit Man Basnet and Top Bahadur Basnet
(represented by counsel, Track Impunity
Always-TRIAL)
Alleged victim:
The authors
State party:
Nepal
Date of communication:
8 February 2011 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 21 April 2011
(not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
29 October 2014
Subject matter:
Enforced disappearance
Substantive issues:
Prohibition of torture and cruel and inhuman
treatment, right to liberty and security of person,
respect for the inherent dignity of the human
person, recognition as a person before the law
and right to an effective remedy
Procedural issue:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies; level of
substantiation of claims
Articles of the Covenant:
7, 9, 10 and 16 alone, and in conjunction with
article 2 (para. 3)
Article of the Optional Protocol:
2 and 5 (para. 2 (b))
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