Renders this judgment: I. THE PARTIES 1. Ms Elyssa,2 (hereinafter referred to as “the Applicant”) is a national of the Republic of Tunisia and a computer engineer by profession. She requested and granted anonymity by the Court. She alleges violation of her rights in relation to proceedings before domestic courts following her divorce and subsequent sentencing to seven months imprisonment for adultery. 2. The Application is filed against the Republic of Tunisia (hereinafter referred to as the “Respondent State”), which became a party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Charter”) on 16 March 1983 and to the Protocol on 21 August 2007. The Respondent State also deposited, on 16 April 2017, the Declaration provided for in Article 34(6) of the Protocol, by virtue of which it accepts the Court’s jurisdiction to receive applications from individuals and Non-Governmental Organizations having observer status before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Declaration”). On 7 March 2025, the Respondent State deposited with the African Union Commission the instrument of withdrawal of the said Declaration. The Court has ruled that the withdrawal of the Declaration has no effect either on pending cases or new cases filed before it until the withdrawal comes into effect one year after the deposit of the instrument thereof, in this case, on 8 March 2026.3 2 Pseudonym adopted by the Applicant. 3 Mouaz Khariji Ghannouchi and Others v. Republic of Tunisia, AfCHPR, Application No. 004/2023, Decision of 17 March 2025 (setting aside the ruling on provisional measures of 28 August 2023), §§ 12 and 13. 2