12. On jurisdiction and admissibility, the Respondent State prays the Court to: i. Find that the Honourable African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is not vested with jurisdiction to adjudicate this Application. ii. Find that the Application does not meet the admissibility requirement provided by Rule 40(5) of the Rules of Court. iii. Find that the Application does not meet the admissibility requirement provided by Rule 40(6) of the Rules of Court. iv. Declare the Application inadmissible and duly dismiss it. 13. On the merits, the Respondent State prays the Court to: i. Find that the United Republic of Tanzania did not violate the Applicant’s rights provided under Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. ii. Dismiss the Application for lack of merit. iii. Dismiss the Applicant’s prayers in their entirety. iv. Order that the Applicants continue to serve their sentence. 14. On reparations, the Respondent State prays for: i. A Declaration that the applicants are not entitled to any payment as reparation. ii. A Declaration that the Respondent has not violated the African Charter or the Protocol and that the Applicants were treated fairly and with dignity by the Respondent. iii. An Order that the Applicant should pay the fine ordered by the Court to the Respondent. iv. An Order to dismiss the prayers for reparations. v. Any other order this court might deem right and just to grant under the prevailing circumstances. V. JURISDICTION 15. The Court recalls that Article 3 of the Protocol provides as follows: 5

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