filed on 07th November 2014, the Reply to the 2nd Respondent’s Submissions filed on 15th December 2014 and the Applicant’s Submissions in reply to the 1st Respondent’s Submissions filed on 15th January 2015. 17. Briefly, the Applicant alleged that on 29th October 2013, Mr. Rufyikiri, in his capacity as the President of the Burundi Bar Association, addressed a press conference in which he raised issues concerning the rule of law, democracy and constitutionalism, and that as a result of the said press conference, the Prosecutor General of the Court of Appeal of Bujumbura made a complaint to the Burundi Bar Council requesting it to take disciplinary action against him. 18. He averred that the Bar Council had 60 days expiring on 30th December 2013, within which it had to consider the complaint lodged by the Prosecutor General, but that, on 17th December 2013, the latter, without following the laid down procedures, introduced an action at the Court of Appeal of Bujumbura requesting that Mr. Rufyikiri be disbarred from the Roll of Advocates. He further alleged that on the same date of 17th December 2013, the Prosecutor of the AntiCorruption Court made an order prohibiting Mr. Rufyikiri from travelling outside Burundi. 19. It was also the Applicant’s case that the Court of Appeal, without following the right procedures and due process, disbarred Mr. Rufyikiri from the Roll of Advocates. 20. The Applicant asserted that when members of the Burundi Bar Association convened a meeting on 28th January 2014 in order to consider and analyse the said decision of the Court of Appeal of Bujumbura, Burundi security forces forcefully disrupted the meeting. REFERENCE NO.1 OF 2014 Page 5