Il. SHORT BACKGROUND OF THE MATTER’ 3. The facts of the matter date back to the assassination, on 13 December Norbert Zongo, an investigative journalist, and his companions. 1998, of Messsrs Abdoulaye Nikiéma alias Ablassé and Blaise Ilboudo were collaborators of Mr. Zongo, and Ernest Zongo was his younger brother. 4. In their initial application dated 10 December 2011, the Applicants alleged that “the murder of the four persons on 13 December 1998 ... [was] connected with investigations that Norbert Zongo was conducting on various political, economic and social scandals in Burkina Faso during that period, notably the investigation of the death of David Ouédraogo, the chauffeur of Frangois Compaoré, brother of the President of Faso and Adviser at the Presidency of the Republic”. 5. After the Police and the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Burkina Faso had carried out investigations into the matter of the quadruple assassination, one of the suspects identified was indicted in February 2001. 6. In July 2006, an Order was issued by the Investigating Magistrate of Ouagadougou District Court dismissing the case in favour of the indicted person for lack of evidence. 7. In August 2006, an appeal filed against the Order by Norbert Zongo’s family at the indictment chamber of the Ouagadougou Court of Appeal, was thrown out by that Court, and the dismissal for lack of evidence upheld. 8. Following these developments, the Applicants alleged before this Court the concurrent violation of the provisions of various international human rights instruments to which Burkina Faso is a party, namely: (i) The Charter: Article 1 (obligation to adopt legislative or other measures to give effect to the rights enshrined in the Charter); Article 3 (equality before the law and equal protection of the law); Article 4 (the right to life); Article 7 (the right for one’s cause to be ‘ For details on the facts and historical development of the case, see the Judgment of the Court dated 28 March 2014, paras 2 to 19.