I.
THE PARTIES AND THEIR REPRESENTATION
The Initiating Application of the instant case was lodged at the Registry of the
ECOWAS Court of Justice on 14 January 2016. It was submitted on behalf of Mr.
Djibril Yipéné Bassolé, a Burkinabe, represented by:
-
Maître Yérim Thiam, Lawyer registered with the Bar of Dakar (Senegal);
- Maître Marc Le Bihan, Lawyer registered with the Bar of Niamey (Niger);
- Maître Rustico Lawson-Banku, Lawyer registered with the Bar of Lome
(Togo);
- Maître Dieudonné Bonkoungou, Lawyer registered with the Bar of
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso);
- Maître William Bourdon, Lawyer registered with the Bar of Paris (France).
The Defendant is Burkina Faso. Its Memorial in Defence was received at the
Registry of the Court on 23 February 2016. The Defendant is represented by:
- Mr. Yao Lamoussa, Judicial Officer at the Treasury;
- Madam Stéphanie Zoungrana, Assistant Judicial Officer at the Treasury;
- Mr. Landry Yameogo, Assistant Judicial Officer at the Treasury;
- Mr. Salomon Ouba, Assistant Judicial Officer at the Treasury.
II.
SUMMARY OF FACTS AND PROCEDURE
On 29 September 2015, the Applicant, Mr. Djibril Yipéné Bassolé, a former
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso, was summoned by the national
gendarmerie for questioning, from his home, on the strength of letters rogatory
dated 28 September 2015, made by a trial judge of a court martial at the
Ouagadougou Military Tribunal. The summoning was the aftermath of an
attempted coup d’état in Burkina Faso which occurred on 16 September 2015,
and formed part of the judicial inquires and proceedings instituted in connection
with the failed coup d’état.
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