Almeida de Quinteros and Quinteros Almeida v. Uruguay

Abstract

168Human rights — Torture, inhuman and degrading treatment — Ill-treatment of complainant's daughter — Whether amounting to “psychological torture” of complainant — Proof of torture — Arrest and detention — Right of detainee to humane treatment — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966International tribunals — Competence — Procedure — United Nations Human Rights Committee — Optional Protocol to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — Admissibility of communication — Whether alleged victim subject to jurisdiction of State Party — Exhaustion of domestic remedies — Absence of effective remedies — Whether allegations to be treated as substantiated in the absence of evidence to contrary from State PartyDiplomatic relations — Embassy premises — Asylum — Arrest of asylum-seeker in grounds of embassy