11, The Human Eights Committee, acting under article 5, paragraph 4, of the
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
is of the view that the facts before it do not disclose a violation of
articles 7 and 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
[Done in English, French, Russian and Spanish, the English text being the
original version.]
Motes
a/
By telegram of 2 March 1988 the Special Rapporteur of the Human
Eights Committee on death penalty cases, Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis, requested
the Jamaican Minister for Foreign Affairs to grant a stay of execution, to
allow the Committee to consider Mr. Ellis' communication. On 8 March 1988
stay of execution was granted.
b/
Mr, Whylie's communication. No. 227/1987, was declared inadmissible
by the Human Rights Committee on 26 July 1988, on the ground of non-exhaustion
of domestic remedies.
£/
See sect. B above, Raphael Henry v. Jamaica, views adopted on
1 November 1991, paras. 7.3-7.6; and sect. J below, Apton Little v. Jamaica,
views adopted on 1 November 1991, paras. 7,2-7.6.
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