CAT/C/53/D/514/2012
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
13 January 2015
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 514/2012
Decision adopted by the Committee at its fifty-third session
(3–28 November 2014)
GE.15-00394 (E)
Submitted by:
Déogratias Niyonzima, represented by Track
Impunity Always (TRIAL)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Burundi
Date of complaint:
23 July 2012 (initial submission)
Date of the present decision:
21 November 2014
Subject matter:
Torture committed by police officers; failure
to investigate; lack of redress
Procedural issues:
Examination of the same matter under
another procedure of international
investigation or settlement; exhaustion of
domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment; measures to prevent
torture; systematic review of arrangements
for custody and treatment of detainees; State
party’s obligation to ensure that its competent
authorities proceed to a prompt and impartial
investigation; right of complaint; right to
redress; prohibition on the use of statements
obtained under torture as evidence in
proceedings
Articles of the Convention:
Articles 2 (para.1), 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15,
read in conjunction with articles 1 and 16 of
the Convention; article 22 (para. 5 (a) and
(b)) of the Convention
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