40. From the record before the Court, the Applicant exhausted local remedies by filing an appeal against the High Court’s convictions and sentences to the Supreme Court of Appeal, which is the country’s highest and final court. The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed the Applicant’s appeal on 14 July 2021. Thereafter the Applicant filed this Application on 13 December 2021. It thus took the Applicant five months to file this Application, after exhausting domestic remedies. In the circumstances, the Court finds the period of five months to be manifestly reasonable within the meaning of Article 56(6) of the Charter as restated in Rule 50(2)(f) of the Rules. 41. Finally, with respect to the requirement laid down in Rule 50(2)(g) of the Rules, the Court finds that the present Application does not concern a case which has already been settled by the Parties in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, or the provisions of the Charter. The Application, therefore, meets this condition. 42. In light of the foregoing, the Court finds that the Application fulfils all the admissibility requirements set out under Article 56 of the Charter, as restated in Rule 50 of the Rules, and accordingly declares the Application admissible. VIII. MERITS 43. The Court notes that the Applicant has made several allegations regarding the possible violation of his right to a fair trial protected by Article 7 of the Charter, Article 4(1) of the ACDEG as read together with Article 14 of the ICCPR, Article 8 of the UDHR, and Article 2 of the Fair Trial Guidelines, Specifically, he invokes his entitlement to appeal to a higher judicial body (A); he also challenges his conviction based on what he alleges was unreliable evidence (B); invokes his right to challenge opposing evidence, as well as his right to be presumed innocent (C); to be notified of the 11