previous charges without conducting any investigation to justify the successive separation orders. 77. Among other evidence of the abuse of the prosecution process, the Complainant submits that the examining magistrate’s committal order and remand warrant of 7 May 2012 are illegal since they were issued in disregard of the ruling of 3 May 2012 in which the Mfoundi High Court (Yaoundé) acquitted the Complainant of all charges and ordered his release. 78. Regarding the High Court ruling mentioned above, the Complainant contends that the refusal by the judicial authorities of the Respondent State to comply therewith violates his right not to be arbitrarily detained. The Complainant further states that as soon as his release order was signed on 4 May 2012, the Court President, the State Counsel and his deputies all disappeared from their offices to avoid signing his discharge form to be handed to the prison superintendent for execution. The Complainant avers that the said persons only reappeared in the morning of 7 May 2012 and that by the time the release order finally reached the prison administrator, the latter had received a few hours earlier a new committal order and remand warrant. These new acts were based on the charges contained in the previous orders. 79. According to the Complainant, the new prosecution orders issued illegally on 7 May 2012 were used as a pretext by the prosecuting authorities to prolong his detention which had already become unlawful several months prior to this date. As a result of this prolonged detention, the Court of Appeal tried the Complainant and, on 8 October 2012, sentenced him to 15 years’ imprisonment whereas there was a new law which did not allow the appeal of judgements passed by the High Court regarding the misappropriation of public funds. Still on the basis of this 21