CCPR/C/117/D/2219/2012 Annex Joint opinion of Committee members Yuji Iwasawa and Yuval Shany (concurring) We concur with the Committee’s conclusion that the State party has violated the rights of the author under article 18 (1) of the Covenant, but for reasons different from the majority of the Committee.a We will retain our reasoning even though we may not find it compelling to repeat it in future communications. a 12 For details, see Abdullayev v. Turkmenistan, appendix (joint opinion of Committee members Yuji Iwasawa, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany and Konstantine Vardzelashvili).