CCPR/C/112/D/2018/2010
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
8 January 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 2018/2010
Views adopted by the Committee at its 112nd session
(7–31 October 2014)
Submitted by:
Kedar Chaulagain (represented by counsel,
Mandira Sharma, Advocacy Forum-Nepal,
and Carla Ferstman, Redress Fund)
Alleged victims:
The author and his deceased daughter,
Subhadra Chaulagain
State party:
Nepal
Date of communication:
7 December 2010 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 22 December
2010 (not issued in document form)
The Committee’s decision on admissibility of 8
March 2012 (CCPR/C/104/D/2018/2010)
Date of adoption of Views:
28 October 2014
Subject matter:
Arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, inhuman
and degrading treatment, and subsequent
extrajudicial killing of a girl suspected of being a
member of the Communist Party (Maoist)
Substantive issues:
Right to life; prohibition of torture and cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
right to liberty and security of the person; respect
for the inherent dignity of the human person;
right to an effective remedy; equal protection of
the law
Procedural issues:
Non-exhaustion of domestic remedies
Articles of the Covenant:
2 (para. 3) in conjunction with 6, 7, 9, 10 and 26
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
2 and 5 (para. 2 (b))
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