P.K. v. Canada

CCPR/C/89/D/1234/2003

Communication number(s):

1234/2003

Author:

P.K.

Type of decision:

Inadmissibility decision

Session No

89

Country 

Canada

Submission date

05 Dec 2003

Date of decision

20 Mar 2007

Comment:

On 5 December 2003 Canada was requested to inform the Committee on the risk that Ms P.K. would be forcibly removed. After her removal she went into hiding in Pakistan, and her request for interim measures to prevent deportation was denied.


Substantive issues:

  • criminal charges
  • criminal offence
  • cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • effective remedy
  • fair trial
  • right to life
  • suit at law

Substantive articles:

  • 2 (3) (a)
  • 6 (1)
  • 7
  • 14 (1)

Procedural issues:

  • accessory character of article 2 ICCPR
  • ratione materiae

Procedural articles:

  • 2
  • 3
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