CAT/C/52/D/497/2012*
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
12 June 2014
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Communication No. 497/2012
Decision adopted by the Committee at its fifty-second session,
28 April–23 May 2014
Submitted by:
Rasim Bairamov (represented by counsel)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Kazakhstan
Date of complaint:
6 May 2011 (initial submission)
Date of present decision:
14 May 2014
Subject matter:
Failure to carry out a prompt and impartial
investigation into torture allegations, to bring
perpetrators to justice, provide full and adequate
reparation, forced confession; inadequate health
care
Procedural issues:
Level of substantiation of claims
Substantive issues:
Torture; severe pain or suffering; effective
measures to prevent torture; prompt and
impartial investigation wherever there is
reasonable ground to believe that torture has
been committed; right to complain to, and to
have one’s case promptly and impartially
examined by competent authorities; right to
adequate compensation, forced confession,
inadequate health care
Articles of the Convention:
1; 2; 12; 13; 14; 15 and 16
* Reissued for technical reasons on 3 July 2014.
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