I. THE PARTIES 1. Mr. Adama DIARRA, also known as “Vieux Blén” (hereinafter “the Applicant”) is a Malian national and radio host. He challenges the legality of the procedure that led to him being held in detention for contempt of court and cybercrime. 2. The Application is filed against the Republic of Mali (hereinafter “the Respondent State”) which became a party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (hereinafter “the Charter”) on 21 October 1986 and to the Protocol on 20 June 2000. The Respondent State also deposited, on 19 February 2010, the Declaration provided for in Article 34(6) of the Protocol (hereinafter “the Declaration”), by virtue of which it accepts the jurisdiction of the Court to receive applications from individuals and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). II. SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION A. Facts of the matter 3. It emerges from the records that on 22 October 2020, the deputy public prosecutor of Bamako Commune III district High Court placed the Applicant under detention following a joint complaint lodged by the two magistrates' unions of the Respondent State, namely the Syndicat Autonome de la Magistrature (SAM) and the Syndicat Libre de la Magistrature (SYLIMA), for contempt of court and insults, committed through an information system by posting a video on the internet. According to the said complaint, the Applicant “gratuitously attacked the magistrates in charge of the case of the State versus Sidiki DIABATE who, according to him, refused, in flagrant violation of the laws of the Republic, to hear the latter (the accused) who is in detention”. 2