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JUDGMENT SUMMARY
LEGAL & HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE AND LIBERATUS MWANG’OMBE
V.
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
APPLICATION NO. 041/2020
RULING ON JURISDICTION AND ADMISSIBILITY
A DECISION OF THE AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS
Arusha, 6 March 2026: The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Court), today
delivered a judgment in the case of Legal & Human Rights Centre and Liberatus Mwang’Ombe
v. The United Republic of Tanzania.
The Application is filed by the Legal and Human Rights Center and Liberatus
Mwang’ombe. Both the First and Second Applicants are hereinafter referred to jointly
as the “Applicants”.
The First Applicant is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit human rights
organization which was granted observer status with the African Commission on
Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Second Applicant is a national of Tanzania, and a
human rights’ advocate. The Applicants alleged the violation of the right to register
and to vote of thousands of detainees and citizens residing in the diaspora, in the
presidential and national assembly elections.
The Applicants alleged that the United Republic of Tanzania (the Respondent State)
violated of Articles 1, 2, 3 and 13(1) of African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
(the Charter), Articles 2(1), 2(2), 7, 25(a) and (b) of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (ICCPR), and Articles 2, 21(1) of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR), as well as Articles 13(2) and (4) of the Tanzanian Constitution.
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