CCPR/C/127/D/2760/2016
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
16 December 2019
English
Original: Spanish
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the
Optional Protocol, concerning communication
No. 2760/2016*, **
Communication submitted by:
Carlos Moreno Zamora, María Enriqueta Pérez
Barrera and Areli Moreno Pérez, on their own
behalf and on behalf of Jesús Israel Moreno
Pérez, their missing son and brother (represented
by I(DH)EAS Litigio Estratégico en Derechos
Humanos and the Mexican Commission for the
Defence and Promotion of Human Rights)
Alleged victims:
The authors and Jesús Israel Moreno Pérez (son
and brother of the authors)
State party:
Mexico
Date of communication:
10 November 2015 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 92 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 6 April 2016 (not issued in
document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
5 November 2019
Subject matter:
Disappearance
Procedural issue:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Right to an effective remedy; right to life;
prohibition of torture and cruel and inhuman
treatment; right to liberty and security of person;
recognition as a person before the law
Articles of the Covenant:
2 (3), 6 (1), 7, 9 and 16
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
5 (2) (b)
1.
The authors of the communication, dated 10 November 2015, are Carlos Moreno
Zamora, María Enriqueta Pérez Barrera and Areli Moreno Pérez, all nationals of Mexico
and adults. The authors are acting on their own behalf and on behalf of Jesús Israel Moreno
* Adopted by the Committee at its 127th session (14 October to 8 November 2019).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Tania María Abdo Rocholl, Yadh Ben Achour, Ilze Brands Kehris, Arif Bulkan, Ahmed Amin
Fathalla, Shuichi Furuya, Christof Heyns, Bamariam Koita, Marcia V.J. Kran, Duncan Laki
Muhumuza, Photini Pazartzis, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, Vasilka Sancin, José Manuel Santos Pais,
Yuval Shany, Hélène Tigroudja, Andreas Zimmermann and Gentian Zyberi.
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