United Nations CCPR/C/118/D/2152/2012* International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Distr.: General 1 December 2016 Original: English Human Rights Committee Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol, concerning communication No. 2152/2012**, *** Communication submitted by: S.P. (not represented by counsel) Alleged victim: The author State party: Russian Federation Date of communication: 24 February 2011 (initial submission) Document references: Decision taken pursuant to rule 97 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to the State party on 22 May 2012 (not issued in document form) Date of adoption of Views: 27 October 2016 Subject matter: Treatment of the author while in pretrial detention Procedural issues: Admissibility — manifestly ill-founded; exhaustion of domestic remedies; other procedure Substantive issues: Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; conditions of detention; discrimination Articles of the Covenant: 7, 10 and 26 Articles of the Optional Protocol: 2 and 5 (2) (a) and (b) * Reissued for technical reasons on 14 December 2016. ** Adopted by the Committee at its 118th session (17 October-4 November 2016). *** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Ahmet Amin Fathalla, Olivier de Frouville, Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Duncan Laki Muhumuza, Photini Pazartzis, Mauro Politi, Sir Nigel Rodley, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval. GE.16-21149(E) 

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