Courts directly due to Section 5 of the Police Act which limits the liability of the
Police. The Commission therefore finds that all these compromises fair trial.
230.
As touching Article 26, the Complainants allege that the Respondent State's
government system of checks to prevent human rights violations is flawed and
ineffective, and that the Constitution of South Sudan has no provision for the
effective enforcement of the Bills of Rights which is a guarantee of compliance with
the Charter.
231.
They also contend that there is no effective constitutional supervisory jurisdiction
for the courts to compel the Executive branch to adhere to the constitution and
protect and uphold the provisions of the Charter, contrary to the obligations placed
on States by Article 3(h) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union. The
complainants aver that the Respondent State violates Article 26'9£ the Charter by not
allowing the establishment and improvement of appropriate national institutions
entrusted with the promotion and protection of the rights and freedoms guaranteed
in the Charter.
232.
The Commission acknowledges that it may not totally rely dn"fhe Complainants'
allegations to determine whether or' not the State has complied to its duties to
protect the courts, it will therefore draw its conclusions suo motu. In this regard, the
Commission notes that it had found a vi9lation of Article 26 in a case wherein it was
alleged that 'procedural defiqiencies" ha'd,;,deprivedthe victims of an 'effective and
impartial investigationJ'f Also in Tsatsu Tsikata v. Republic of Ghana, the
Commission found that a series of measures taken by the government amounted to
interference in the independence ofthe'judiciary.i'"
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233.
The Complainants in this case state ';that the Transitional Constitution of the
Respondent State lacks provisions such as mandamus and certiorari, to enable
individuals to apply to the Courts to enforce their Constitutional rights; and that the
Constitutional remedy provided for in Article 306 of the Constitution is a civil
remedy and cannot effectively address a case of criminal nature which can only be
determined after completion .of a criminal investigation by the Police, of which the
Complainants complain had' blocked the case.
234.
Bearing in mincf'the conv.etgence between Article 7 that deals with the right of the
individual, and Article 26 which focuses on 'the institutions that are indispensable
to give meaning and content to that right, the Commission is of the view that where
the national laws of a State has procedural flaws that inhibits the State from
fulfilling its obligation in this regard, violation of Articles 7 and 26 will result. In
this case therefore, the Commission finds violation of Articles 7 and 26 of the
African Charter by the Respondent State.