Sayadi and Vinck v. Belgium

CCPR/C/94/D/1472/2006

Communication number(s):

1472/2006

Author:

Nabil Sayadi and Patricia Vinck

Type of decision:

Decision on merits

Session No

94

Country 

Belgium

Submission date

14 Mar 2006

Date of decision

22 Oct 2008

Comment:

Individual opinions have been appended to the admissibility decision: signed by Committee members Sir Nigel Rodley, Ivan Shearer and Iulia Antoanella Motoc (partly dissenting) and Walter Kalin and Yuji Iwasawa (partly dissenting), and Ruth Wedgwood (dissenting). Further individual opinions have been appended to the Views: Ivan Shearer (dissenting), Yuji Iwasawa (concurring) and Nigel Rodley (concurring).


Substantive issues:

  • criminal charges
  • criminal offence
  • effective remedy
  • fair trial
  • fair trial - undue delay
  • freedom of movement
  • limitations of rights
  • presumption of innocence
  • restrictions of rights
  • retroactive application of criminal law

Substantive articles:

  • 2 (3)
  • 12 (1)
  • 12 (3)
  • 14 (1)
  • 14 (2)
  • 14 (3)
  • 15 (1)
  • 17 (1)
  • 46

Procedural issues:

  • exhaustion of domestic remedies
  • same matter - another procedure of international investigation or settlement

Procedural articles:

  • 1
  • 5 (2) (a)
  • 5 (2) (b)
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