CAT/C/52/D/366/2008
Annex
Decision of the Committee against Torture under article 22 of
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (fifty-second session)
concerning
Communication No. 366/2008
Submitted by:
Eduardo Mariano Haro (represented by
counsel, Ms. Silvia de los Santos)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Argentina
Date of complaint:
18 November 2008 (initial submission)
The Committee against Torture, established under article 17 of the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Meeting on 23 May 2014,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 366/2008, submitted to
the Committee against Torture by Eduardo Mariano Haro under article 22 of the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment,
Having taken into account all information made available to it by the complainant,
his counsel and the State party,
Adopts the following decision under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention
against Torture.
Decision under article 22, paragraph 7, of the Convention against
Torture
1.
The author of the complaint is Eduardo Mariano Haro, an Argentine national, born
on 17 November 1981. He claims to be a victim of violations by Argentina of articles 1, 2,
10–14 and 16 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment. At the time of submission of the complaint, the author was being
held in Prison Unit No. 6 in Rawson in Chubut province. The author is represented by Ms.
Silvia de los Santos.
Factual background
2.1
The author lives in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia and worked as a mason before
his arrest. He was arrested in 2001 and convicted by the First Criminal Chamber of
Comodoro Rivadavia (hereinafter “the First Chamber”) on 21 June 2002 for the offences of
voluntary manslaughter and serious bodily injury and sentenced to 12 years in prison. The
author alleges that the trial was fraught with irregularities.
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