CCPR/C/112/D/1972/2010
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
19 November 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 1972/2010
Views adopted by the Committee at its 112th session
(7–31 October 2014)
Submitted by:
Ali Djahangir oglu Quliyev (represented by
counsel, Eldar Zeynalov)
Alleged victims:
The author
State party:
Azerbaijan
Date of communication:
24 June 2010 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 13 August 2010
(not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of decision:
16 October 2014
Subject matter:
Torture in pretrial detention; inhuman conditions
of detention; unfair trial; commutation of a death
sentence into life imprisonment at a time when
life imprisonment was not provided by law
Procedural issues:
Admissibility ratione temporis; exhaustion of
domestic remedies; claim examined under
another procedure of international investigation
or settlement
Substantive issues:
Torture, fair trial, inhuman treatment; heavier
penalty imposed than the one that was applicable
at the time when the criminal offence was
committed; right to appeal
Articles of the Covenant:
7, 10 (paras. 1 and 3), 14 (paras. 1, 3 (d), 5 and
6) and 15 (para. 1)
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
2 and 5 (paras. 1 and 2 (b))
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