98- قررت اللجنة في دورتها الخامسة والثلاثين، المعقودة في آذار/مارس 1989، أن تعين مقرراً خاصاً لمعالجة البلاغات الجديدة عند وصولها تباعاً، أي فيما بين دورات اللجنة، وفي الدورة الحادية والسبعين للجنة، التي عقدت في آذار/مارس 2001، عُيّن السيد شاينين مقرراً خاصاً جديداً.
“In considering Canada's obligations, as a State party which has abolished the death penalty, in removing persons to another country where they are under sentence of death, the Committee recalls its previous jurisprudence in Kindler v. Canada. … [In this case the Committee] considered that as Canada itself had not imposed the death penalty but had extradited the author to the United States to face capital punishment, a State which had not abolished the death penalty, the extradition itself would not amount to a violation by Canada unless there was a real risk that the author's rights under the Covenant would be violated in the United States … .