وتساءل عما إذا كانت القرارات بالمحاكمة تتخذ من جانب أي مؤسسات أخرى مستقلة تماماً لا تخضع للإشراف أو المراقبة السياسية.
Under the Covenant, the State party had an obligation to ensure that prosecutions, as well as judicial proceedings, were conducted by an impartial body, and he wondered whether decisions to prosecute were taken by some other institution entirely independent of political supervision or control.