The documents produced included: letters of assignment of Counsels for the beneficiaries
of Norbert Zongo et al; letters from the Counsel requesting that some witnesses be heard;
warrants for the detention and for extension of the period of detention of the accused;
several medical documents on the state of health of the suspect; several summons for
witnesses and the suspect; twenty seven (27) reports on the hearings.
43. By letter dated
2 January
2014,
the Registrar served
these documents
on the
Applicants.
44. By letter dated 29 January 2014, the Applicants submitted to the Court, following its
request at the Public Hearing of 29 November 2013, the written submissions of Maitre B.
N. Sankara at the Public Hearing, as well as documents annexed to the pleadings. The
documents produced were, inter alia, the Applicants’ complaint in a civil suit; several
reports
between
on
interrogations
the Applicants
and
and
adversarial
the
procedures;
Prosecutor
of Faso
exchange
of correspondence
on the subject
of reopening
of
investigations into the matter, after the 18 July 2006 Order to terminate proceedings.
45. During the written procedure, the parties made the following submissions:
On behalf of the Applicants,
In the application:
“52.
In view of the above-mentioned
points of fact and the law, without prejudice to
elements of fact and of law, and elements of evidence which may later be adduced,
well as the right to amend
and supplement this document,
as
the beneficiaries of Late
Norbert Zongo, Abdoulaye Nikiema alias Ablassé, Ernest Zongo and Blaise Ilboudo and
the Burkinabé Human and Peoples’ Rights Movement, respectfully pray the Court to:
eo
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