CCPR/C/132/D/2651/2015 Advance unedited version 6. As the View recognizes, the organs of the State are best placed to make findings of facts based on the evidence and testimony before them (para. 10.5). For this very reason, the Committee has taken the position that it respects the assessment by the State party unless the author sufficiently and convincingly demonstrates that the State party’s assessment was clearly arbitrary or amounted to a manifest error or denial of justice. In the present case, we consider, in the absence of pertinent information provided by the author, that she failed to demonstrate that the assessment by the authorities of the State party was clearly arbitrary or amounted to a manifest error or denial of justice. Accordingly, we conclude that the removal of the authors, if implemented, would not constitute a violation of articles 6 and 7 of the Covenant. 12