CCPR/C/112/D/1965/2010 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. 1965/2010* Submitted by: John Njie Monika (represented by counsel, Martin Dikanjo Esingila) Alleged victim: The author State party: Cameroon Date of communication: 11 January 2010 (initial submission) The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Meeting on 21 October 2014, Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 1965/2010, submitted to the Human Rights Committee on behalf of John Njie Monika 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 1.1 The author of the communication is John Njie Monika, born on 6 January 1959 at Victoria (now Limbe), Cameroon. He claims violations of his rights under articles 2 (para. 3), 6, 7, 9 and 26 of the Covenant. The Optional Protocol to the Covenant entered into force for the State party on 27 September 1984. The author is represented. 1.2 On 18 October 2010, the Special Rapporteur on new communications and interim measures denied the State party’s request that the admissibility of the communication be considered separately from the merits. * The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Christine Chanet, Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Cornelis Flinterman, Walter Kälin, Yuji Iwasawa, Gerald L. Neuman, 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 of Committee member Fabián Salvioli (partially dissenting) is appended to the present Views. 2

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