Teti 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 — Intemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — 0ptional Protocol — 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 — Appeal proceedings still in process — Whether unreasonably prolonged

Treaties — Conclusion and operation of — Entry into force — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — Alleged violation beginning before entry into force of Covenant and Optional Protocol thereto — Continuing violation — United Nations Human Rights Committee

The individual in international law — In general — Human rights and freedoms — Detention incommunicado — Allegations of torture and ill-treatment — Right to trial within a reasonable time — Trial by military court — Right to prepare defence and choose defence counsel — Forced confession — Exhaustion of local remedies — Whether accused required to exhaust remedies of an extraordinary nature — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — Optional Protocol — United Nations Human Rights Committee