94.
The
Court
compatibility
holds
of the
therefore
Application
that
with
the
the
objection
raised
on
the
Constitutive
Act
and
the
Application
on
the
Charter is unfounded and is hereby overruled.
3.) Objection
grounds
to
the
admissibility
that it is based
of
the
exclusively
on
news
disseminated
from the mass media
95.
Article 56(4) of the Charter requires that Applications “Are not
based exclusively on news disseminated through the mass
The
Respondent
argues
that
the
Applicants
have
included
media’.
pages
from newspapers as the only proof of allegations of police brutality,
thereby
basing
from the mass
their Application
media.
exclusively
on
news
disseminated
The Court observes that the Applicants did
provide excerpts of newspaper clippings to support their allegation of
police
brutality.
excerpts
It notes
by the Applicants
that
the
production
of these
newspaper
has as its only objective to support the
allegationswhich they made in the Application.
96.
It should be added that apart from the newspaper clippings, the
Applicants submitted
to the Court, the names
of persons who they
claim were both witnesses and victims of the alleged brutality, some
of whom were hospitalized as a result of the alleged brutality, and in
their letter of 16 July 2012, to the Court, the Applicants described the
scenes of the alleged police brutality which
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