CCPR/C/139/D/3252/2018
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
14 February 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4)
of the Optional Protocol, concerning communication
No. 3252/2018*, **
Communication submitted by:
Dina Maslova (represented by counsels, Akmat
Alagushev and Altynai Isaeva)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Kyrgyzstan
Date of communication:
30 August 2018 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rule 92 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 26 December 2018 (not issued
in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
13 October 2023
Subject matter:
Freedom of expression
Procedural issues:
None
Substantive issues:
Restriction of freedom of expression
Article of the Covenant:
19 (2)
Article of the Optional Protocol:
None
1.
The author of the communication is Dina Maslova, a national of Kyrgyzstan born in
1984. She claims that the State party has violated her rights under article 19 of the Covenant.
The Optional Protocol entered into force for Kyrgyzstan on 7 January 1995. The author is
represented by counsels.
Facts as presented by the author
2.1
The author is a co-founder of the public foundation, ProMedia, and editor-in-chief of
an Internet news portal Zanoza. On 30 March 2017, Zanoza published an article about a
speech delivered by Ms. D., a human rights activist and former deputy of the Kyrgyz
parliament, at a public round-table event on the theme of the right to peaceful assembly and
freedom of speech. The article, entitled “Ms. D.: time to reprimand a person with manic
tendencies”, partially reproduced Ms. D.’s speech, in which she criticized the then President
of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambaev. Ms. D. stated that the President was abusing the law to
* Adopted by the Committee at its 139th session (9 October–3 November 2023).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Tania María Abdo Rocholl, Farid Ahmadov, Wafaa Ashraf Moharram Bassim, Rodrigo A. Carazo,
Yvonne Donders, Mahjoub El Haiba, Carlos Gómez Martínez, Laurence R. Helfer, Marcia V.J. Kran,
Bacre Waly Ndiaye, Hernán Quezada Cabrera, José Manuel Santos Pais, Soh Changrok, Tijana
Šurlan, Kobayashi Tchamdja Kpatcha, Teraya Koji, Hélène Tigroudja and Imeru Tamerat Yigezu.
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