the law on CRIET, 189, 190, 428, and 594 of the Beninese Code of Criminal Procedure which were challenged in Application No. 004/2020 for violation of Article 14 § 1, § 3 and § 5 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter referred to as “ICCPR”) committed against him? ii) If the answer to this question is in the affirmative, how would such a cassation appeal be satisfactory if the Court of Cassation were to issue a ruling contrary to the application of the above provisions insofar as, on the one hand, the said provisions have already been declared to be constitutional and, on the other hand, Decision DCC 09-087 of 13 August 2009 of the Constitutional Court and Article 124 of the Constitution give precedence to the decisions of the said Court over those of all other courts of the Respondent State in respect of human rights matters? iii) In dismissing the main Application, is the Court requesting the Respondent State to deprive him of his liberty in violation of Articles 9, 12, 14 (1) and (5) of the ICCPR in order for him to be deemed to have exhausted local remedies, or is the Court simply requesting him to await the outcome of the cassation appeal, and if so, must he wait indefinitely for the ruling given that the Court has not set any time limit? iv) Since the Court requests him to await the outcome of proceedings in which the Respondent State is not disclosing the particulars of the proceedings record, is the Court requesting him to wait indefinitely while these impediments to the rights to be availed evidence persist without any real outcome? v) Should he interpret paragraph 60 of the Ruling as the Court requesting him to file pleadings before the Court of Cassation without having received the case file, whereas in this case, the substantive issue of the domestic proceedings revolves around 3

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