oe. | As regards right to freedom of movement | 30. The Applicants maintain that the Public Prosecutor of Dakar decided to ban them from going out of the national territory, without any legal basis and on no grounds. They maintain that this natural law regarding freedom of movement is provided for and guaranteed by various international instruments such as the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human the 1966 International African 1981 Covenant Charter on on Civil and Human and Rights, Political Rights, the June Peoples’ Rights, and the Canstitution of Senegal in its Articles 8(2), 14, and9. 31. They further assert that it is only a judge, as a custodian of freedoms, who may impose restrictions on freedom of movement, and that even in that regard, he is not absolutely free to make any decision whatsoever: the judge’s reasoned; decision shall that as such, not the only decision be legally made based but must be by the Special Prosecutor amounts to a serious violation of the freedom of movement since there was no legal basis upon which that measure was adopted against them, me debarring them from going out of @@®2 ational territory: | | As regards equality of citizens before the law and before the courts 32. The Applicants aver that they are victims of breach the law and instruments before as well the courts, as the and they Constitution cite of of equality before several international Senegal, all of which emphasise equality of persons before the law and before the courts. They further assert that the violated because country was the said adopted principle of equality measure solely of banning on the ground before them of their the from courts is leaving the status as former the following Ministers (of the out-going regime). As regards right to fair trial 33. The Applicants maintain that: Senegal disregarded principles of law éndorsed by national and international norms: