CCPR/C/113/D/2091/2011
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5 (4) of
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (113th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2091/2011*
Submitted by:
A.H.G. (represented by counsel, Carole Simone
Dahan) and M.R., the author’s litigation guardian
and niece
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Canada
Date of communication:
28 August 2011 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 25 March 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2091/2011, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee on behalf of A.H.G. 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 communication is A.H.G., a Jamaican national born on 27 July
1962 in Kingston, whose deportation to Jamaica was imminent at the time of submission of
the present communication. He claims that the State party would violate articles 2 (3), 6 (1),
7, 17 and 23 (1) of the Covenant if it were to deport him. He is represented by Carole
Simone Dahan.
1.2
On 29 August 2011, pursuant to rule 92 of its rules of procedure, the Committee,
acting through its Special Rapporteur on new communications and interim measures,
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Olivier de Frouville,
Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Duncan Laki Muhumuza, Photini Pazartis, Mauro Politi, Víctor Manuel
Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Dheerujlall Seetulsingh, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany,
Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
The texts of an individual opinion by Committee member Anja Seibert-Fohr (concurring), an
individual opinion by Committee member Yuval Shany (concurring) and an individual opinion by
Committee member Víctor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia (partly dissenting) are appended to the present
Views.
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