On 28th July 2011, he was arrested on the orders of the Public Prosecutor of Burundi for alleged subornation of witnesses in a criminal matter which involved the murder of one, Dr. Kassim Allan, in a case that was instituted sometime in 2003. On 19th August 2011, the Public Prosecutor took the Applicant to the court -in - charge of confirmation of detention in the Tribunal of First Instance of Bujumbura. 8.The said Tribunal, after deliberation, provisionally released him and further ordered that its decision was to be executed immediately pursuant to the provision of Article 84 of the Penal Procedure, Laws of Burundi. The aforegoing notwithstanding, the Public Prosecutor allegedly arbitrarily refused to deliver the necessary documents for his release and as a result, the Applicant remained in jail in the absence of any supporting documents for his further incarceration. 9.It is his contention therefore, that the harassment, arbitral and unlawful detention that he was subjected to by agents of the Government of Burundi contravened internationally recognized tenets and principles of good governance and specifically Article 6(d) of the Treaty. 10.It is also the Applicant’s case that the matter in question was widely reported in the print and electronic media both locally in Burundi and 4

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