CCPR/C/126/D/2750/2016
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
13 September 2019
English
Original: Spanish
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the
Optional Protocol, concerning communication No.
2750/2016*, **
Communication submitted by:
María Eugenia Padilla García, Ricardo Ulises
Téllez Padilla and María Eugenia Zaldívar
Padilla, on their own behalf and on behalf of
Christian Téllez Padilla, their missing son and
brother (represented by i(dh)eas Litigio
Estratégico en Derechos Humanos and the
Mexican Commission for the Defence and
Promotion of Human Rights)
Alleged victims:
The authors and Christian Téllez Padilla (son and
brother of the authors)
State party:
Mexico
Date of communication:
10 November 2015
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 92 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 15 March 2016
(not issued in document form)
Decision adopted on:
15 July 2019
Subject matter:
Enforced disappearance
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Right to an effective remedy; right to life;
prohibition of torture and cruel and inhuman
treatment; right to liberty and security of person;
recognition as a person before the law
Articles of the Covenant:
2 (3), 6 (1), 7, 9, 16
Article of the Optional Protocol:
5 (2) (b)
* Adopted by the Committee at its 126th session (1–26 July 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Tania María Abdo Rocholl, Yadh Ben Achour, Ilze Brands Kehris, Arif Bulkan, Ahmed Amin
Fathalla, Shuichi Furuya, Christof Heyns, Bamariam Koita, 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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