97.
The Court therefore holds that the Application is not exclusively
based on news from the mass media and overrules the objection.
4.) Exhaustion of local remedies
98.
One
of the
requirements
for
admissibility
mentioned
under
Article 56 is exhaustion of local remedies. Article 56(5) requires that
applications
relating
considered,
to
human
and
peoples’
rights
shall
if they“...are sent after exhausting local remedies,
be
if any,
unless it is obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged”.
99.
In its judgment in Tanganyika Law Society and The Legal and
Human
Rights
Centre
Republic
of
Tanzania,
011/2011,
para
82.1,
&
Rev.
Christopher
Consolidated
the Court
Mtikila
v.
Application
The
United
009/2011
ruled that “remedies
and
envisaged
in
Article 6(2) of the Protocol and Article 56(5)of the Charter are judicial
remedies
as they are the ones
effectiveness
jurisprudence”.
Applicants
have
and
It
that meet
sufficiency
is for
the
exhausted
that
Court
local
the criteria
has
been
therefore
remedies
to
of availability,
elaborated
ascertain
or whether
they
in
if the
were
faced with a procedure that was unduly prolonged.
100.
With respect to the current Application, there are two questions
this Court is called upon to determine in relation to exhaustion of local
remedies. The first is whether or not the Applicants have exhausted
local
remedies
second
rx
with
respect
to their claim
for compensation.
is whether or not they have exhausted
Votes
Let
a
The
local remedies withts
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Ce
=
,
:
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