CCPR/C/114/D/2360/2014
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5 (4) of
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (114th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2360/2014*
Submitted by:
Warda Osman Jasin (represented by the Danish
Refugee Council)
Alleged victim:
The author and her three children
State Party:
Denmark
Date of communication:
17 March 2014 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 22 July 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2360/2014, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Warda Osman Jasin, 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 (4) of the Optional Protocol
1.1
The author of the communication1 is Warda Osman Jasin, born on 2 May 1990 in
Somalia. She submits the communication on behalf of herself and her three minor children:
S, SU and F. The author is a Somali national seeking asylum in Denmark and subject to
deportation to Italy following the Danish authorities’ rejection of her application for
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
1
2
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Olivier de Frouville, Ahmed
Amin Fathalla, Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Duncan Muhumuza Laki, Photini Pazartzis, Sir Nigel
Rodley, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Dheerujlall Seetulsingh, Anja
Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval. In accordance with
article 90 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, Mauro Politi did not participate in the consideration
of the communication.
The texts of individual opinions by Committee member Dheerujlall Seetulsingh (dissenting) and by
Committee members Yuval Shany and Konstantine Vardzelashvili (concurring) are appended to the
present Views.
The communication itself is not dated; it was received by the secretariat on 17 March 2014..