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 set by the Court as being the commencement of the time limit within which it shall be 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 Constitutive Act of the African Union or the provisions of the Charter. A. Objections to the admissibility of the consolidated Applications 40. The Court notes, from the record, that the Respondent State raises similar objections to the admissibility of the consolidated Applications. It contends that, in both Applications, the Applicants did not exhaust domestic remedies and that they did not file their Applications within a reasonable time, as decreed by the Charter. These objections will now be dealt with individually, before considering other admissibility requirements, if necessary. i. Objection alleging non-exhaustion of domestic remedies 41. The Respondent State contends that both Applicants filed their Applications prematurely without first having recourse to the procedure under its Basic Rights and Duties Enforcement Act, as the rights alleged to have been 12