May 2014. The accusations in Court were that they conspired to contravene the provisions of the said Anti-Terrorism Proclamation. 15. The Complainant submits that the Victim was brought to the Addis Ababa City Remand Centre on 08 July 2015 and he was told that he is being released because the Prosecutor withdrew all the charges against him. He was then released. 16. The Complainant submits that on 25 November 2015, the Victim was stopped by an Ethiopian Immigration Officer at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport when he was about to travel to France and confiscated his passport. The Victim was going to receive the Citizen-Journalist Award which was conferred upon Zone 9 by the Reporter sans Frontieres (RSF). The passport was returned to the Victim after 7 months, on 01 June 2016. 17. The Complainant submits that on 05 August 2016, upon the Victim's return to Ethiopia from the United States of America where he went as a Mandela Washington Fellow, his documents were confiscated by an agent of the Ethiopian Government and they were later returned with no explanation. 18. The Complainant submits that the Victim was travelling to the United States of America on 16 September 2016 when an Ethiopian Immigration Officer stopped him and questioned him for more than an hour. The Victim believes that the Government of Ethiopia is against his pro-human rights and pro-democracy activities. 19. The Complainant submits that local remedies are unavailable, or in the alternative ineffective or insufficient, because of the objective risks and dangers the Victim faces when he returns to Ethiopia to pursue domestic remedies. Articles alleged to have been violated 20. The Complainant alleges that the Respondent State has violated Articles 5, 6, and 9 of the African Charter. Prayers 21. The Complainant seeks the following: (a) A declaration that the rights of the Victim under Articles 5, 6, and 9 of the African Charter have been violated; (b) A declaration that the provisions of Section 3, 4, 14 and 23 of the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of �thiopi� (Pr?clamation No. 652/ 2009) are �5�,Pc��-� with _ the Charter and give a directive for appropnate amendmentsr;•::''":> sc.CflU�:1'"/,� (c) That the Commission directs the Ethiopian Government-fb i N'Es'f�� 1� arrest and detention, as well as the physical and emotional ��Jl- e O·/·t�; ·ctirp' in 2012, and report its findings to the Commission and take leg 1 ac · · ·ag ifls�f , \ tr• Au.u·o, "' a the perpetrators of sueh acts; \�<. ""o_ 'v ---------- r-.'<'t C,$ sv <e, "·,, -:11 -</�1C4/N€. 0€ "-: '!?� 4 \.,',;; l:; DES p1:,l.ll'