CCPR/C/128/D/2893/2016
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
3 November 2020
English
Original: French
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the
Optional Protocol, concerning communication No.
2893/2016*, **
Communication submitted by:
Malika Bendjael and Merouane Bendjael
[represented by counsel, Nassera Dutour, of the
Collectif des familles de disparu(e)s en Algérie]
Alleged victims:
The authors and Mourad Bendjael (son of Malika
Bendjael and brother of Merouane Bendjael)
State party:
Algeria
Date of communication:
8 April 2016 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 92 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 12 December 2016 (not issued
in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
27 March 2020
Subject matter:
Enforced disappearance
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Right to an effective remedy; cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment; liberty and
security of person; human dignity; recognition as
a person before the law; unlawful interference
with the home; freedom of assembly
Articles of the Covenant:
2 (2) and (3), 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 16, 17 and 21
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
2, 3 and 5 (2)
* Adopted by the Committee at its 128th session (2–27 March 2020).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Yadh Ben Achour, Arif Bulkan, Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Christof Heyns, Bamariam Koita, Marcia V.J.
Kran, Duncan Laki Muhumuza, Photini Pazartzis, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, Vasilka Sancin, José
Manuel Santos Pais, Yuval Shany, Hélène Tigroudja, Andreas Zimmermann and Gentian Zyberi.
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