CCPR/C/60/D/612/1995 page 2 Annex * ** VIEWS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE UNDER ARTICLE 5, PARAGRAPH 4, OF THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS - SIXTIETH SESSION concerning Communication No. 612/1995 Submitted by: José Vicente and Amado Villafañe Chaparro, Dioselina Torres Crespo, Hermes Enrique Torres Solis and Vicencio Chaparro Izquierdo [represented by Mr. Federico Andreu] Victims: José Vicente and Amado Villafañe Chaparro, Luís Napoleón Torres Crespo, Angel María Torres Arroyo and Antonio Hugues Chaparro Torres State party: Colombia Date of communication: 14 June 1994 (initial submission) Date of admissibility decision: 14 March 1996 The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Meeting on 29 July 1997, Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 612/1995, submitted to the Human Rights Committee on behalf of Mr. José Vicente and Mr. Amado Villafañe Chaparro, Mr. Luís Napoleón Torres Crespo, Mr. Angel María Torres Arroyo and Mr. Antonio Hugues Chaparro Torres under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Having taken into account all written information made available to it by the authors of the communication, their counsel and the State party, Adopts the following: * The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present communication: Mr. Nisuke Ando, Mr. Praffullachandra N. Bhagwati, Mr. Thomas Buergenthal, Lord Colville, Mrs. Elizabeth Evatt, Mr. Eckart Klein, Mr. David Kretzmer, Mrs. Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Mr. Fausto Pocar, Mr. Julio Prado Vellejo, Mr. Martin Scheinin, Mr. Danilo Türk and Mr. Maxwell Yalden. ** In accordance with rule 85 of the rules of procedure, one member of the Committee, Mrs. Pilar Gaitan de Pombo, did not take part in the adoption of the Views.