Applications filed before the Court shall comply with all of the following conditions: a. Indicate their authors even if the latter request anonymity, b. Are compatible with the Constitutive Act of the African Union and with the Charter, c. Are not written in disparaging or insulting language directed against the State concerned and its institutions or the African Union, d. Are 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. Are submitted within a reasonable time from the date local remedies were exhausted or from the date the Commission is seized with the matter, and g. Do not deal with cases which have been settled by those States involved in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, or the Charter of the Organization of African Unity or the provisions of the Charter. 35. The Court notes that the Respondent State raises an objection to the admissibility of the Application relating to the requirement of exhaustion of local remedies. The Court will consider this objection, first, before examining other conditions of admissibility, if necessary. A. Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies 36. The Respondent State contends that the Applicant has not exhausted local remedies and thus his Application should be declared inadmissible. * 37. The Applicant submits that he exhausted local remedies. He contends that the Respondent State has failed to provide details of the further remedies that he should have exhausted after the Court of Appeal’s judgment. 10

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