ويبدو أن هذه الممارسة تستخدم جزئياً على الأقل على سبيل الردع أو العقاب، مما يثير قضايا بموجب المادة 6.
During the period under review, the Committee continued to consider a communication that had been submitted before Trinidad and Tobago denounced the Optional Protocol under article 12 of the latter. In case No. 908/2000 (Evans v. Trinidad and Tobago), the Committee noted: