tangible proof that the Applicant has not exhausted local remedies and that the
Application should therefore be dismissed for non-compliance with the provisions
of Rule 40(5) of the Rules.
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35. The Applicant, in his Reply,
does not contest the existence of the remedies
invoked by the Respondent State but rather whether he was required to exhaust
them. He argues that the remedies have been exhausted in as far as the Court
of Appeal, the highest Court in the United Republic of Tanzania, delivered a
Judgment in Criminal Case No.22812005, following his appeal.
36. With regard to the constitutional
petition remedy and the review remedy, the
Applicant alleges that these are "extraordinary remedies" which are not required
to be pursued for the purposes of seeking redress before this Court.
37.
Consequently, the Applicant argues that he has exhausted all the available local
remedies and that the Application meets the admissibility condition set out in Rule
40(5) of the Rules of Court.
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38. With regard to local remedies,
the Court notes that it has been established that
the Applicant filed an appeal against his conviction before the Court of Appeal of
Tanzania, the highest judicial organ of the country, and that this Court upheld the
judgments of the High Court and the District Court.
39. The key question is whether the two other remedies mentioned by the
Respondent State, namely, the Constitutional Petition before the High Court and
the Review before the Court of Appeal are remedies that must be exhausted by
the Applicant within the meaning of Rule 40(5) of the Rules which in essence
restates the provisions of Article 56 (5) of the Charter. Regarding the filing of a
Constitutional Petition on the violation of the Applicant's rights, the Court has
already stated that this remedy
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