The 4" Plaintiff avers, that on the 7" of February 2013, he was arrested and unlawfully detained on the grounds of researching and preparing an article relating to the actions taken by Major Lamin Touray against the execution of nine condemned prisoners. He was detained in an isolated room and physically tortured with brutality by the NIA to the point of being hospitalized. After his discharge from the hospital, he was charged with producing and possessing publication with seditious intentions contrary to the criminal code. Being refused bail pending trial, he was transferred to an overcrowded cell and was held in state custody for 17 months until the end of his trial at which he was acquitted. The fear of further prosecution and injustice being afflicted on the 4" Plaintiff, forced him to go into exile, and he now resides in Dakar, Senegal. The Application was later amended to include the S” Applicant as a party. The Applicants aggrieved by the alleged acts of the Defendants have filed this suit for the enforcement of their fundamental rights as guaranteed under the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, and International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. The Defendant upon receipt of the claims so filed against it, filed a preliminary objection dated 4" January 2016 raising the following issues:- Tit