Cubas v. Uruguay

Abstract

State responsibility — Nature and kinds of — For wrongs unconnected with contractual obligations — Acts and omissions of State organs and officials — Exhaustion of legal remedies — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — Optional Protocol thereto — Article 5(2)(b) — Proceedings before United Nations Human Rights Committee — Exhaustion of domestic remedies — Whether victim of alleged violation of Covenant required to exhaust remedies of an exceptional nature — Application for conditional release — Whether a remedy

The individual in international law — In general — Human rights and freedoms — Detention incommunicado — Denial by authorities — Right to fair and public trial — Trial by military court — Accused not properly represented — Trial held in camera — Exhaustion of domestic remedies — Whether accused required to exhaust remedies of an extraordinary nature — Application for conditional release — Whether a remedy — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — Optional Protocol — United Nations Human Rights Committee