CCPR/C/114/D/2329/2014
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5,
paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (114th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2329/2014*
Submitted by:
Z (represented by counsel, Marianne Vølund)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Denmark
Date of communication:
7 January 2014 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 15 July 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2329/2014, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee on behalf of Z 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, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol
1.1
The author of the communication is Z, an Iranian national born on 20 June 1989. He
claims that the State party would be violating his rights under articles 7, 18 and 19 of the
Covenant if he were to be deported to the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is represented by
counsel, Marianne Vølund.
1.2
On 9 January 2014, pursuant to rule 92 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, the
Committee, acting through its Special Rapporteur on new communications and interim
measures, requested the State party to refrain from deporting the author to the Islamic
Republic of Iran while the communication was being examined. On 20 January 2014, the
Refugee Appeals Board suspended the time limit for the author’s departure from the State
party, in accordance with the Committee’s request.
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Ahmed Amin Fathalla,
Olivier de Frouville, Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Photini Pazartzis, Mauro Politi, Sir Nigel Rodley,
Víctor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Dheerujlall Seetulsingh, Anja Seibert-Fohr,
Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
2