CCPR/C/114/D/2234/2013
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
21 October 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 2234/2013
Views adopted by the Committee at its 114th session
(29 June-24 July 2015)
Submitted by:
M.T. (represented by counsel, the Redress Trust
and the International Federation for Human
Rights)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Uzbekistan
Date of communication:
18 December 2012 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 5 February 2013
(not issued in a document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
23 July 2015
Subject matter:
Human rights defender convicted on false
criminal charges and tortured while in detention
Procedural issues:
Admissibility; substantiation
Substantive issues:
Torture, arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, fair
trial, arbitrary interference with privacy,
freedoms of expression, association and
assembly, discrimination, effective remedy
Articles of the Covenant:
2 (3) read separately and in conjunction with 7, 9
(1), (2) and (4), 10 (1) and (2) (a), 14 (1) and (3)
(b) and (e) and (5), 17, 19 (2), 21, 22 and 26
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
2
GE.15-17392(E)
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