valued at Tanzania Shillings Two Hundred Thousand (TZS 200,000) as compensation. 4. The Applicant appealed against the judgment by Criminal Appeal No. 03/2006 before the High Court of Tanzania at Arusha (hereinafter referred to as “the High Court”). He subsequently appealed against the decision of the High Court by Criminal Appeal No. 315/2009 before the Court of Appeal of Tanzania at Arusha (hereinafter referred to as the “Court of Appeal’). The High Court and the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction and the sentence on 9 July 2009 and 24 February 2012, respectively. 5. On 9 January 2013, the Applicant allegedly lodged a Notice of Motion for Review of the Court of Appeal’s judgment, which was still pending at the time of filing the Application before this Court. B. Alleged violations 6. The Applicant alleges: i. That the Court of Appeal delayed in hearing his Application for Review to date; ii. That he was wrongly deprived of the right to be heard, specifically that: a) He was trial deprived and appeals, of his right to legal assistance throughout the contrary to Article 13 of the Tanzanian Constitution, Section 310 of Criminal Procedure Act (Cap 20 R.E. 2002) (hereinafter referred to as “the CPA’), and Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7(1)(b), 13 and 18(1) of the Charter; b) He was wrongly deprived of the right to be heard and to defend himself; c) The charge sheet was defective under Section 132 of the CPA, because of the variance between the charge sheet and evidence; and the charge sheet also bore no stamp or signature of the public prosecutor;