United Nations CCPR/C/121/D/2837/2016* International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Distr.: General 21 December 2017 Original: English Human Rights Committee Decision adopted by the Committee under the Optional Protocol, concerning communication No. 2837/2016**, *** Communication submitted by: B.Z. et al. (represented by counsel, Dorian Matlija and Theodoros Alexandridis) Alleged victims: The authors State party: Albania Date of communication: 13 January 2016 (initial submission) Document references: Decision taken pursuant to rule 97 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to the State party on 21 October 2016 (not issued in document form) Date of adoption of decision: 8 November 2017 Subject matter: Forced eviction and demolition of housing of Roma community Procedural issues: Exhaustion of domestic remedies; substantiation of claims Substantive issues: Effective remedy; cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; freedom of movement; unlawful and arbitrary interference with one’s home and family; discrimination on the ground of ethnic origin Articles of the Covenant: 2, 7, 12, 17, 23, 26 and 27 Article of the Optional Protocol: 5 (2) (b) 1.1 The authors of the communication are B.Z., H.Z. and K.Z., all nationals of Albania of Roma ethnicity, born in 1967, 1965 and 1984 respectively. They allege that Albania has violated their rights under articles 2, 7, 17, 23, 26 and 27 of the Covenant by forcibly evicting them from Roma settlements twice, in October and November 2015, and by failing to provide them with accommodation immediately after their eviction. In addition, they claim that their forced return to Elbasan, their city of origin, constitutes a violation of their * Reissued for technical reasons on 9 January 2018. ** Adopted by the Committee at its 121st session (16 October−10 November 2017). *** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Ilze Brands Kehris, Sarah Cleveland, Olivier de Frouville, Christof Heyns, Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Bamariam Koita, Marcia V.J. Kran, Photini Pazartzis, Mauro Politi, José Manuel Santos Pais, Yuval Shany and Margo Waterval. GE.17-23033(E) 

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