CCPR/C/117/D/2220/2012
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.
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For details, see communication No. 2218/2012, Abdullayev v. Turkmenistan, Views adopted on 25
March 2015 (joint opinion of Committee members Yuji Iwasawa, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany
and Konstantine Vardzelashvili).