taken in regard Investigating comprising to the case from Registrar twenty-two of the pages 1999 to 2006, signed as required by law, Court in Ouagadougou, adversarial of hearings, totalling sixty-three procedural acts which by the together with nine procedures and submissions, reports the form part of the process of addressing matter between the period of suspension of the hearing of the principal accused and the appeal proceedings. 31. By letter dated 28 April 2013, the Applicants responded to the Registrar's letter mentioned in paragraph 29, reiterating their position that the matter had been stayed between 2001 2006 and 2006, and producing a copy of the definitive directive dated by the Prosecutor of Faso to terminate proceedings, as well as a copy 13 July of the summons dated 28 April 2006 issued to the Counsel to appear for the hearing of Madam Genevieve Zongo. 32. On 21 June 2013, the Court delivered its ruling, as follows: “On these grounds, THE COURT, unanimously, 1. Upholds the objection to the Court's jurisdiction ratione temporis with respect to the violation of the right to life, based on the 13 December 1998 murder of Norbert Zongo, Abdoulaye Nikiema known as Ablassé, Ernest Zongo and Blaise Ilboudo; 2. Overrules the objection to its jurisdiction rationae temporis in regard to the allegation of violation of the rights of the Applicants to have their cause heard by a Judge on the basis of _ the judicial acts and procedures which occurred during treatment of this matter at national level; 3. Overrules the objection to the Court’s jurisdiction rationae temporis on allegations of violations of human rights in regard to the obligation to guarantee respect for human rights, the right to equal protection of the law and equality before the law, and the right to freedom of expression and the protection of journalists as long as these allegations are directly linked to the allegation of violation of the right of the Applicants to have their cause heard by competent national courts. i e Xx