Jurisprudence

Committee: CCPR
Communication number(s): 1881/2009
Author: Masih Shakeel
Display name: Masih Shakeel
Victim: Masih Shakeel
Countries: Canada
Date of admissibility
Submission date: 24 Jun 2009
Date of adoption of the Views: 24 Jul 2013
Session No: 108
Type of decision: Adoption of views
Comment: The texts of two individual opinions by Committee members Mr. Yuval Shany, Mr. Cornelis Flinterman, Mr. Walter Kälin, Sir Nigel Rodley, Ms. Anja Seibert-Fohr and Mr. Konstantine Vardzelashvili, and by Mr. Yuji Iwasawa, respectively, are appended to the present Views.
Issues: admissibility - incompatibility
admissibility - manifestly ill-founded
admissibility - ratione materiae
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
effective remedy
liberty of person
right to life
torture
Articles: CCPR-14
CCPR-2
CCPR-6-1
CCPR-7
CCPR-9-1
CCPR-OP-5-2-b

CCPR/C/108/D/1881/2009