CAT/C/48/D/433/2010
Annex
Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22 of
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (forty-seventh
session)
concerning
Communication No. 433/2010**
Submitted by:
Alexander Gerasimov (represented by the
Open Society Justice Initiative and the
Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human
Rights and the Rule of Law)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Kazakhstan
Date of complaint:
22 April 2010 (initial submission)
The Committee against Torture, established under article 17 of the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Meeting on 24 May 2012,
Having concluded its consideration of complaint No. 433/2010, submitted to the
Committee against Torture by Alexander Gerasimov under article 22 of the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Having taken into account all information made available to it by the complainants,
their counsel and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Decision under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention against
Torture
1.
The complainant is Alexander Gerasimov, a Kazakh national born in 1969. He
claims to be a victim of a violation by Kazakhstan 1 of articles 1, 2, 12, 13, 14 and 22, of the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
**
1
2
The decision was adopted by vote. Nine members voted in favour and one member, Xuexian Wang,
abstained.
Kazakhstan made the declaration under article 22 of the Convention against Torture on 21 February
2008.