CAT/C/71/D/858/2018
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
1 September 2021
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 858/2018*, **
Communication submitted by:
B.N. and S.R., represented by TRIAL (Track
Impunity Always)
Alleged victims:
B.N. and A.H.
State party:
Burundi
Date of complaint:
22 December 2017 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rules 114 and 115 of
the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted
to the State party on 12 January 2012 (not issued
in document form)
Date of adoption of decision:
19 July 2021
Subject matter:
Torture and enforced disappearance; lack of
effective investigation and redress
Procedural issue:
Exhaustion of domestic remedy
Substantive issues:
Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment; measures to prevent
acts of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment; State party’s obligation
to ensure that the competent authorities proceed
to a prompt and impartial investigation; right to
complain; right to redress
Articles of the Convention:
2 (1), 11, 12, 13 and 14, read in conjunction with
1 and 16
* Adopted by the Committee at its seventy-first session (12–30 July 2021).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Claude Heller, Erdoğan İşcan, Liu Huawen, Ilvija Pūce, Ana Racu, Diego RodríguezPinzón, Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Peter Vedel Kessing.
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