violated the Applicant’s right to dignity guaranteed under Article 5 of the Charter. C. Alleged violation of the right to a fair trial 90. The Applicant alleges that by virtue of the proceedings leading up to her being found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, her right to a fair trial guaranteed under Article 7 of the Charter was violated as follows: i. The delay between the Applicant’s arrest and her trial 91. The Applicant alleges that she spent three (3) years, six (6) months in custody, being the period between her arrest and conviction, which she submits “constitutes unreasonable delay according to settled international law.” More specifically, the Applicant points out that she was arrested in February 2008, charged with the offence of murder on 22 September 2009. Subsequently, her trial commenced in November 2010, and she was sentenced in September 2011. 92. Relying on the Court’s decisions in Alex Thomas v. Tanzania, Mariam Kouma & Ousmane Diabate v. Mali, Wilfred Onyango and others v. Tanzania and Armand Guehi v. Tanzania, the Applicant submits that the Court interpreted the terms “unreasonable delay” based on three (3) criteria.31 First, as regards the complexity of the case she avers that her prosecution was based exclusively on the testimony of four (4) eyewitnesses only, hence the trial ought to have been concluded at a quicker pace. Second, as regards the behaviour of the parties, she argues that the delay was attributable to the Respondent State inasmuch as the public hearing was adjourned several times notwithstanding that she neither called witnesses nor filed multiple applications before the trial court. Finally, as regards the behaviour of the judicial authorities, the Applicant submits 31 Alex Thomas v. Tanzania, § 104; Mariam Kouma and Ousmane Diabate v. Mali, (admissibility) (21 March 2018) 2 AfCLR 237, § 38; Wilfred Onyango Nganyi and others v. United Republic of Tanzania (merits) (18 March 2016) 1 AfCLR 507, § 136; Armand Guehi v. Tanzania (merits and reparations), § 122. 27