“Please be informed that the subject matter of your Application is manifestly not within the jurisdiction of the Court. Further, since your complaint is being made against a non-State Party to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Court does not have jurisdiction to receive the matter”.” 12. It was exactly in the same manner that three requests filed against Egypt, a Member State of the African Union but not party to the Protocol, were rejected. In his reply to the latest of these three requests, the Deputy Registrar indeed informed the Applicant as follows: “[...] I would like to inform you that Egypt has not yet ratified the Protocol establishing the Court. The Court can only receive Applications related to States which are Parties to the Protocol”.* 13. It is similarly through an administrative, and not judicial, channel that were rejected Applications filed against States Parties to the Protocol but have not made the optional declaration recognizing as compulsory the Court’s jurisdiction to deal with cases filed by individuals or non-governmental organizations, as provided by Article 34 (6) of the Protocol. 14. This is for instance the case of an Application filed against Tunisia, in regard to which the Registrar informed the Applicant of what follows: “The Court considered your application and noted that Tunisia, the Respondent against which your Application is filed, has not made the special declaration ’ Letter from the Deputy Registrar dated 18 February 2015 (Ref AFCHPR/Reg,/02/2015/009) in reply to a request filed by Madam Chie Miyakazi against Japan, dated 18 October 2014. * Letter from the Deputy Registrar dated 29 June 2015 (Ref AFCHPR/Reg./06/011) in reply to an Application filed by Osama Bardeeni against the Arab Republic of Eqypt, dated | January 2015. See also the action taken on the Application filed by Mr. Ibrahim Muhammed Agwa and three others against the Arab Republic of Egypt, dated 16 June 2014; this Application was rejected by a letter from the Deputy Registrar dated 20 June 2014 (Ref AFCHPR/Reg,/06/2014/006) in which the latter stated as follows: “As I have already explained to you during our meeting on Wednesday, 18 June 2014, Egypt has not yet ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. As such, the Court does not have jurisdiction to hear the matter”, See finally the letter from the Registrar dated 24 June 2013 in reply to an Application filed on 17 June 2003 by the “Popular Front against the transformation of Egypt into a Muslim Brotherhood State” against the Arab Republic of Egypt.