d. Not based exclusively on news disseminated through the mass media; e. Are sent after exhausting local remedies, if any, unless it is obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged, f. Be filed within a reasonable time from the date local remedies were exhausted or from the date set by the Court as being the commencement of the time limit within which it shall be seized with the matter; g. Do not deal with cases which have been settled in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, or the Constitutive Act of African Union or the provisions of the Charter. 36. The Court notes that the Respondent State raises an objection to the admissibility of the Application based on non-exhaustion of local remedies. The Court will first consider this objection before examining other admissibility requirements, if necessary. A. Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies 37. The Respondent State submits that that an Applicant can bring a case before the Court only after having seized domestic courts with the same grievances and utilised all possible remedies. 38. According to the Respondent State, pre-trial detention is controlled by Article 85 of its CCP, which provides that the measure may only be enforced in cases of serious crimes or offences and at all times on the basis of plausible presumptions, when detention appears necessary as a security measure to prevent further offences, as a guarantee for the enforcement of a sentence or as a means of securing information. 39. The Respondent State further submits that the investigating judge is the judicial authority of first instance empowered to issue a committal order while the court of second instance is the indictment division. It points out that in examining an application for bail, the judicial authority takes into 10

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