PROCEDltRE
1. · By various Applications all dated 22 July 2011 and lodged at the Registry
of the Court on 8 August 2011, Messrs. Hermes Da-Silveira, Kodzo Tunu
Kpakpo, Kossi Dovi Tudzi, Komi Adjete Djifa Akakpo, Kodzo Zuzuwe Foly
and Yaovi Mawulikplimi, on one hand, and Messrs. Innocent Kakou
Assima and Narcisse Dosseh Kpanou Azanleko, on the other hand,
brought their case before the Court, for the purposes of asking the Court
to find: in terms of the claims of the first set of Applicants, that the
Republic of Togo violated Articles 4, 5, 7(1)-d and 16(2) of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Articles 7, 9(3) and 14(c) of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political rights, Article 5 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment; and in terms of the claims of the second set of Applicants,
that -the Republic of Togo violated Articles 4, 5 and 6 in fine of the
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Articles 7, 9(1) and 10(1)
of the International Covenant on Civil and· Political Rights, Articles 5 and
9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, lnhuman or Degrading Treatment or
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2. The Republic of Togo lodged at the Registry of the Court, on 3 August
2011, its Memorial in Defence to each of the two cases.
3. The Court duly proceeded to serve the written pleadings on each of the
Parties.
4. The Court heard the Parties at the hearing of 30 October 2012, in the
course of which the proceedings were joined by the Court. The Cou rt
equally heard the Parties on 11 December 2012 and 18 April 2013.
AS TO FACTS
The facts as narrated by Hermes Da-SilveiraJ Kodzo Tunu Kpakpo, Kossi
Dovi Tudzi, Komi Adjete Djifa Akakpo, Kodzo Zuzuwe Foly and Yaovi
Mawulipklimi
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