Communication. Any interested individual can bring a Communication on behalf of a victim and such individuals need not be citizens of States Parties to the African Charter. The fact that Mr. Brain Spilg SC is a national of another country is immaterial. As long as he satisfies the conditions set out in Article 56 of the African Charter, the African Commission will entertain the Communication as it has done, in several other cases where Communications have been instituted by non-nationals of States against whom the AC HP R Communication is being instituted.17 84. The African Commission is therefore unable to agree with the Respondent State‟s argument which seems to infer that citizenship of the authors of the Communication is a criterion within the provision of Article 56(1) of the African Charter. This would not only be tantamount to reading new criteria into the provision, but would also restrict the open-ended spirit found therein. Consequently, the Respondents State‟s argument that the Communication is now without an author to pursue it as a result of Kobedi‟s execution is also unsustainable as the present Communication is properly before the African Commission in terms of Article 56(1) of the African Charter. The African Commission hereby concludes that the Complainants in this 85. matter possess locus standi before it, and will however proceed to examine the Communication in view of the other Admissibility requirements. The Law on Admissibility Complainants’ Submissions on Admissibility 17 Foot note 9 above. 19