CCPR/C/120/D/2267/2013 18 April 1998, three to the Office of the Ombudsman and one to the Minister of Justice. He received several replies from various authorities and was invited to a meeting by the Observatory on 30 December 1998 and by its successor, the National Advisory Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, on 4 February 2003. He also received two letters from the chief of the district of Dellys (dated 24 April 2006 and 11 April 2007). In addition, the Head of Government wrote to him on 20 November 2006 informing him that his request had been transmitted to the Commission. 2.9 On 20 February 2008, the author sent another letter to the President of the Republic, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. On 12 March 2008, he wrote to the Minister of Justice, the Minister of the Interior, the governor of Boumerdès and the Commission. Aside from the letter from the Head of Government, dated 18 May 2008, informing him that his letter had been transmitted to the Commission, the author has not received any pertinent reply and all his efforts have been in vain.1 2.10 The author also had recourse to the courts. On 18 April 1998, he filed complaints with the prosecutor general of the Algiers Court of Justice and the public prosecutor at the Dellys Court with requests for searches to be mounted in order to locate Youcef Khelifati. 2.11 Further to the complaints, the author was summoned on 7 June 1998 to appear before the public prosecutor attached to the Dellys Court in a letter dated 31 May 1998, but the complaint was rejected. The file was transferred to the investigating judge of the Blida Military Court, and the author was then summoned to appear before that court on 20 February 2000. However, the author was to learn from a record of proceedings dated 10 February 2001 that he could call on the court within 24 hours to find that the case had been dismissed. 2.12 On 1 February 2003, the author was summoned to appear before the prosecutor general of the Algiers Court of Justice. Although he appeared, no action was taken on the case. 2.13 On 2 June 2007, the governor of Boumerdès sent a letter to the author, urging him to accept the compensation offered and to stop requesting information on his son’s fate. The author replied on 27 June 2007, emphatically refusing any compensation until he obtained the truth about his son’s fate. On 29 August 2007, the Office of the President also sent the author a letter, inviting him to go to the court nearest his home to file an application for compensation. Subsequently, the governor sent two telexes, on 7 February and 13 June 2009, in which the author was invited to the reception and counselling office to prepare a compensation application. The author has found this hounding so intolerable that he has gone before these authorities on several occasions to make it clear in person that he did not want any compensation, as the one thing that mattered to him was to know the fate of his son. 2.14 A certificate of disappearance was issued to the author on 27 August 2006 by the police station in Dellys. Two new complaints were then filed with the public prosecutor at the Dellys Court, on 20 June 2007 and 12 March 2008. However, the public prosecutor decided to take no further action on them. On 29 November 2011, following the death of Superintendent B., who had been involved in the victim’s arrest on 20 June 1994, the prosecutor decided to close the case. 2.15 The case of Youcef Khelifati was submitted to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on 9 December 2002. The complaint 3.1 The author claims that Youcef Khelifati is the victim of enforced disappearance attributable to the State party as defined under article 2 of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The author considers that his son’s enforced disappearance since 20 June 1994 constitutes the following: (a) a violation of articles 2 (2) and (3), 6, 7, 9, 10 and 16 of the Covenant, with regard to Youcef Khelifati; and (b) a violation of article 2 (2), and of article 7 read in conjunction with article 2 (3), of the Covenant, with regard to the author and his family. 1 GE.17-16622 All the letters are included in the file. 3