CCPR/C/112/D/2098/2011
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 (112th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2098/2011*
Submitted by:
Tahar Ammari (represented by counsel,
Nassira Dutour of the Collectif des Familles
de Disparus en Algérie (Coalition of Families
of Disappeared Persons in Algeria))
Alleged victims:
Toufik Ammari (son of the author) and the
author himself
State party:
Algeria
Date of communication:
8 June 2011 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 30 October 2014,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2098/2011, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Tahar Ammari 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, dated 8 June 2011, is Tahar Ammari, a public
letter-writer, born on 22 December 1932 in Bordj Bou Arréridj, Algeria. He claims that his
son, Toufik Ammari, is the victim of an enforced disappearance attributable to the State
party, in violation of articles 2 (para. 3), 7, 9, 10, 14 and 16 of the Covenant. The author
maintains that he himself is the victim of violations of articles 2 (para. 3), 7 and 14 of the
* The following members of the Committee participated in the consideration of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Christine Chanet, Ahmed Amin Fathalla, Cornelis Flinterman,
Yuji Iwasawa, Walter Kälin, Gerald L. Neuman, Sir Nigel Rodley, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Anja
Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
Pursuant to rule 90 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, Lazhari Bouzid did not participate in the
adoption of the present decision.
The text of an individual (concurring) opinion by Fabián Omar Salvioli is appended to the present
Views.
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