Certainly, that is what the committee against torture, a United Nations agency created under the convention, concluded. All of the 180 or so countries that signed the convention against torture—it is one of the most widely ratified conventions in the world—have conferred on the committee against torture the right and the authority to render decisions on the obligations taken under this convention.
The committee against torture's authoritarian interpretation of article 14 raised by my colleague is, indeed, that the obligation to provide civil recourse include the obligation of lifting the immunity to allow for that recourse.