CCPR/C/112/D/2111/2011
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. 2111/2011*
Submitted by:
Sharmila Tripathi (represented by counsel,
Track Impunity Always-TRIAL)
Alleged victim:
The author, Gyanendra Tripathi (her husband)
and C.T. (their minor daughter)
State party:
Nepal
Date of communication:
28 September 2011 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 29 October 2014,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2111/2011, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Sharmila Tripathi 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 is Sharmila Tripathi, who submits the
communication on her own behalf and that of her husband Gyanendra Tripathi and their
minor daughter C.T. They are Nepalese nationals, born on 1 January 1969, 8 June 1969 and
21 January 2002, respectively. The author claims that the State party has violated
Mr. Tripathi’s rights under articles 6; 7; 9, paragraphs 1–4; 10, paragraph 1; 16 and 22,
alone and read in conjunction with article 2, paragraph 3, of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights; the author’s rights under article 7, read in conjunction with
article 2, paragraph 3, of the Covenant; and her minor daughter’s rights under article 7, read
in conjunction with articles 2, paragraph 3, and 24, paragraph 1, of the Covenant. The
author is represented by counsel.
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Christine Chanet, Ahmed Amin Fathalla,
Cornelis Flinterman, Yuji Iwasawa, Walter Kälin, Zonke Zanele Majodina, Gerald Neuman, Sir
Nigel Rodley, Victor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Anja Seibert-Fohr,
Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili, Margo Waterval, and Andrei Paul Zlătescu.
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