5 129/94 Civil Liberties Organisation / Nigeria, comment of Professor Christof Heyns (2001) Human Rights
in Africa (Kluwer Law International: The Hague), p. 133. Communication 211/98, Legal Resources Centre /
Gambia, the Commission declared the obligation imposed by Article 1 peremptory.
6 Constitutional Rights Project / Nigeria.
7 Huri-Laws / Nigeria.
8 Sir Dawda K. Jawara / The Gambia.
9 Legal Resources Foundation / Zambia.
10 Lawyers Committee for Human Rights / Sudan, Malawi African Association / Mauritania, Amnesty
International / Mauritania, Civil Liberties Organisation / Nigeria.
11 Adopted by the Seventh meeting of the United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the
Treatment of Offenders held at Milan from 26 August to 6 September 1985 and approved by Resolutions
40/32 of the General Assembly of 29 November 1985 and 40/146 December 13, 1985.
12 Minimum standards of IBA on the independence of the judiciary (Adopted 1982).
13 Huri-Laws / Nigeria.
14 Sir Dawda Jawara / The Gambia.
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