CCPR/C/112/D/2069/2011
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. 2069/2011*
Submitted by:
Tatiana Shikhmuradova on behalf of her
husband, Boris Shikhmuradov (not represented
by counsel)
Alleged victim:
The author, and her husband
State party:
Turkmenistan
Date of communication:
28 April 2011 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 17 October 2014,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2069/2011, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Tatiana Shikhmuradova on behalf of her husband, Boris
Shikhmuradov, 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:
Views under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol
1.
The author of the communication, dated 28 April 2011, is Tatiana Shikhmuradova, a
national of the Russian Federation. She submits the communication on behalf of her
husband, Boris Shikhmuradov, also a Russian national, who was born in 1949, and claims
that she has had no contact with her husband since his imprisonment in 2002 in
Turkmenistan and that his current whereabouts are unknown. She claims violations by
Turkmenistan of her husband’s rights under article 6 (para. 1), article 7, article 9, article 14
(paras. 1 and 5), and article 15, of the Covenant; and of her rights under articles 7 and 17 of
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Cornelis Flinterman, Yuji Iwasawa,
Zonke Zanele Majodina, Gerald L. Neuman, Sir Nigel Rodley, Fabián Omar Salvioli,
Dheerujlall B. Seetulsingh, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili,
Margo Waterval and Andrei Paul Zlătescu.
The text of an individual opinion by Committee member Fabián Omar Salvioli (concurring) is
appended to the present Views.
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