50. The Application is not based exclusively on news disseminated through mass media as it is founded on court documents from the domestic courts of the Respondent State in fulfilment of Rule 50(2)(d) of the Rules. 51. The Court observes that the final decision of the Court of Appeal of Tanzania was delivered on 23 February 2016 and the Applicant filed his Application before this Court on 8 June 2016. The Court finds a period of three (3) months and sixteen (16) days that was taken before filing his Application before this Court was manifestly reasonable and, therefore, the requirement in Rule 50(2)(f) of the Rules has been met. 52. Further, the Application does not concern a case which has already been settled by the Parties in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the provisions of the Charter, in compliance with Rule 50(2)(g). 53. The Court, therefore, finds that all the admissibility conditions have been met and that this Application is admissible. VII. MERITS 54. The Court will consider, (A) the alleged violation of Article 7(1) of the Charter, before addressing, (B) the alleged violation of the right to life protected under Article 4 of the Charter, (C) the violation of the right to dignity guaranteed under Article 5 of the Charter, (D) the alleged violation of the right to non-discrimination protected under Article 2 of the Charter, and then, (E) the alleged violation of the right to equality before the law and to equal protection of the law, guaranteed under Article 3 of the Charter. A. Alleged violation of the right to have one’s cause heard 55. The Applicant alleges that the courts of the Respondent State convicted him based on doubtful evidence. He claims that his conviction was based on his 14

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