CCPR/C/112/D/1970/2010
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5,
paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political rights (112th session)
concerning
Communication No. 1970/2010*
Submitted by:
Emina Kožljak and Sinan Kožljak (represented
by counsel, Track Impunity Always–TRIAL)
Alleged victims:
The authors and their missing husband and
father, Ramiz Kožljak
State party:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date of communication:
14 April 2010 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 28 October 2014,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 1970/2010, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Emina Kožljak and Sinan Kožljak 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 authors
of the communication and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Views under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol
1.
The authors of the communication, dated 14 April 2010, are Emina Kožljak and
Sinan Kožljak, nationals of Bosnia and Herzegovina, born in 1941 and 1963 respectively,
who submitted the communication on their behalf and on behalf of their disappeared
husband and father, Ramiz Kožljak. The authors claim to be victims of a violation of
article 7, read alone1 and in conjunction with article 2, paragraph 3, of the Covenant. They
further claim on behalf of Ramiz Kožljak the violation of his rights under articles 6, 7, 9,
and 16, read in conjunction with article 2, paragraph 3, of the International Covenant on
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Christine Chanet, Ahmad Amin Fathalla,
Cornelis Flinterman, Yuji Iwasawa, Walter Kälin, Zonke Zanele Majodina, Gerald L. Neuman, Sir
Nigel Rodley, Victor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabian Omar Salvioli, Dheerujlall B. Seetulsingh,
Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili, Margo Waterval and Andrei Paul
Zlătescu.
1
The claim of a violation of article 7, read alone, was included in the authors’ submission dated 23 July
2013 (see para. 7.3).
2