CCPR/C/116/D/2314/2013
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
25 May 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4)
of the Optional Protocol, concerning communication
No. 2314/2013*, **
Communication submitted by:
Y (represented by counsel Arash Banakar)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Canada
Date of communication:
6 December 2013 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 97 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 9 December 2013 (not issued
in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
22 March 2016
Subject matter:
Deportation to Sri Lanka
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Right to life; torture, cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment; and arbitrary
detention
Articles of the Covenant:
6 (1), 7 and 9 (1)
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
2
* Adopted by the Committee at its 116th session (7-31 March 2016).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Olivier de Frouville, Yuji Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić,
Duncan Muhumuza Laki, Photini Pazartzis, Mauro Politi, Sir Nigel Rodley, Victor Manuel
Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Dheerujlall Seetulsingh, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany,
Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
Individual opinion by Committee member Dheerujlall Seetulsingh (dissenting) is appended to the
present Views.
GE.16-08087(E)