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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2008) Selected Decisions of the Committee against Torture
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Corporal punishment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Death penalty
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Extra-judicial execution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
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- United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2021), Ronald James Wooden, No. 759/2016, 23 July 2021
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2021), O.N. v Burundi, No. 843/2017, 22 July 2021
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2021) B.N. v Burundi, No. 858/2018, 19 July 2021
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2019) Hany Khater v Morocco, No. 782/2016, 22 November 2019
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Solitary confinement
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2019) E.L.G. v Spain, No. 818/2017, 26 November 2019
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a medical doctor
- Accountability: Complaints
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Excessive use of force
- Detention: Police custody / pre-trial detention
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2019) A v Bosnia and Herzegovina, No. 854/2017, 2 August 2019
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- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Armed conflict
- Structural causes of torture & ill-treatment: Discrimination
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2018) Estela Deolinda Yrusta and Alejandra del Valle Yrusta v Argentina, No. 778/2016, 23 November 2018
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- Procedural safeguards: Access to a lawyer
- Procedural safeguards: Access to information
- Procedural safeguards: Notification of family/ third person
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Incommunicado detention/ secret detention
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) Rached Jaïdane v Tunisia, No. 654/2015, 11 August 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) Olga Shestakova v Russia, No. 712/2015, 28 November 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Criminalisation
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CAT (2017) J.B. v Switzerland, No. 721/2015, 17 November 2017
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) G.N. v Burundi, No. 579/2013, 1 May 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Gender-based violence
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) Damien Ndarisigaranye v Burundi, No. 493/2012, 10 November 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) D.C. and D.E. v Georgia, No. 573/2013, 12 May 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Interrogations
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) Ashim Rakishev and Dmitry Rakishev v Kazakhstan, No. 661/2015, 31 July 2017
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Forced medical examination/ treatment
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2017) Aleksei Ushenin v. Kazakhstan, No. 651/2015, 12 May 2017
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2016) X. v. Switzerland, No. 686/2015, 5 December 2016
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CAT (2016) M. Ennaâma Asfari v. Morocco, No. 606/2014, 15 November 2016
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2016) Elaïba v Tunisia, No. 551/2013, 6 May 2016
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2016) B. R. v Italy, No. 598/2014, 29 April 2016
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Training / Activities
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
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- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CAT (2016) Abdulrahman Kabura v. Burundi, No. 549/2013, 11 November 2016
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Detention: Detention - general
- Detention Monitoring
- Evidence extracted by torture
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) X. v Burundi, No. 553/2013, 10 August 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) Saidi Ntahiraja v Burundi, No. 575/2013, 3 August 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention rules/ discipline
- Interrogations
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) Ramiro Ramírez Martínez et al v Mexico, No. 500/2012, 4 August 2015
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- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Evidence extracted by torture
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Medical services
- Detention: Military facilities
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Individual opinion
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) Patrice Gahungu v Burundi, No. 522/2012, 10 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Conditions and treatment in detention: Detention conditions
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Interim measures
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) N. Z. v Kazakhstan, No. 495/2012, 28 November 2014
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) N. B. v Russian Federation, No. 577/2013, 25 November 2015
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Systematic torture
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Admissibility decision
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CAT (2015) Kwami Mopongo and others v Morocco, No. 321/2007, 7 November 2014
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- Theme
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Non refoulement & extradition
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) Hilda Mariolyn Hernández Colmenarez and Francisco Arturo Guerrero Sánchez v Venezuela, No. 456/2011, 15 May 2015
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- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Remedy & reparation
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- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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CAT (2015) H.B. v Algeria, No. 494/2012, 6 August 2015
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- Theme
- Accountability: Complaints
- Accountability: Investigation & prosecution
- Torture & ill-treatment and punishment: Definition /forms/ methods
- Procedural safeguards: Procedural safeguards - general
- Remedy & reparation
- Source
- United Nations: Committee against Torture
- Document Type
- Jurisprudence: Merits
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