Decision; Subjects: CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, ALBANIA; [CCPR: UNO-Pakt II, Internationaler Pakt über bürgerliche und politische Rechte; Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques; Patto II]
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GE.26-04534 (E) 160426 160426 Human Rights Committee Decision adopted by the Committee under the Optional Protocol, concerning communication No. 4565/2024*, ** Communication submitted by: E.Q. (represented by counsel) Alleged victim: The author State Party: Albania Date of communication: 21 December 2023 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Seizure of material belonging to a journalist reporting on organized crime 1. The author of the communication is E.Q., a national of Albania born in 1985. The author claimed that the State Party had violated his rights under articles 2, 17 and 19 of the Covenant. 2. On 17 January 2024, pursuant to rule 94 of its rules of procedure, the Committee, acting through its Special Rapporteurs on new communications and interim measures, requested the State Party to refrain from carrying out any further inspection, dissemination or judicial processing of the material seized from the author while the case was under consideration by the Committee. 3. On 23 April 2025, the author requested the Committee to discontinue its consideration of the communication, given that the Constitutional Court had rendered a judgment on his constitutional complaint in which it had unanimously granted the main requests set out in his complaint. 4. On 16 March 2026, the Committee, in the light of the fact that the authors’ main requests had been granted, decided to discontinue its consideration of communication No. 4565/2024.
* Adopted by the Committee at its 145th session (2–19 March 2026). ** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Tania María Abdo Rocholl, Wafaa Ashraf Moharram Bassim, Rodrigo A. Carazo, Yvonne Donders, Carlos Ramón Fernández Liesa, Laurence R. Helfer, Konstantin Korkelia, Dalia Leinarte, Bacre Waly Ndiaye, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, Akmal Saidov, Ivan Šimonović, Soh Changrok, Tijana Šurlan, Teraya Koji, Hélène Tigroudja and Imeru Tamerat Yigezu. United Nations CCPR/C/145/D/4565/2024 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Distr.: General 16 April 2026 Original: English