M.Z. v. Belgium

CAT/C/67/D/813/2017

Communication number(s):

813/2017

Author:

M.Z. (represented by counsel, Wolfgang Kaleck, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights)

Type of decision:

Inadmissibility decision

Session No

67

Country 

Belgium

Submission date

11 Jan 2017

Date of decision

02 Aug 2019

Comment:

The same matter has been examined by the European Court of Human Rights. Complicity in acts of torture while the complainant was in detention at Guantanamo Bay.


Substantive issues:

  • conditions of detention
  • cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • torture
  • torture - prompt and impartial investigation

Substantive articles:

  • 2
  • 6 (1)
  • 6 (2)
  • 7 (1)
  • 10
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14

Procedural issues:

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

Procedural articles:

  • No articles found
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