iv. Objection alleging that the Application concerns cases that have been settled in accordance with either the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, or the Constitutive Act or the provisions of the Charter 340. The Respondent State argues that the admissibility requirement laid down in Article 56(7) of the Charter, reiterated in Rule 50(2)(g) of the Rules, derives from the principles of international law: ne bis in idem and res judicata, as underlined by the African Commission in Communication Bakweri Land Claims Committee v. Cameroon. The Commission underscored that the requirement under Article 56(7) of the Charter is met when a case involves the same parties and the same issues to a case that has been settled by an international or regional mechanism, as it emerges from the Communication Patrick Okiring and Agupio Samson (represented by Human Rights Network and ISIS-WICCE) v. Republic of Uganda. It argues that the Court has endorsed this jurisprudence. 341. The Respondent State contends that, in the instant case, the matter has already been settled, or at least brought before various other bodies, in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations or the Charter, therefore the Application does not meet the requirement of Rule 50(2)(g) of the Rules and must be declared inadmissible. 342. The Respondent State submits that the determination of this admissibility requirement involves considering cases brought before another court or tribunal, as it emerges from Rule 93(2)(j) of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure of 2010, which requires individual complainants to provide “an indication that the complaint has not been submitted to another international settlement proceeding as provided in Article 56(7) of the African Charter”. 343. In this respect, the Respondent State submits that the Commission would have declared Communication Patrick Okiring and Agupio Samson v. Uganda inadmissible if its authors had not withdrawn the parallel proceedings pending before the EACJ. Similarly, the Court would have 76

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