iv.
Ms. Aidan KISUMO, Senior State Attorney, Attorney General's Chambers;
v.
Ms. Blandina KASAGAMA, Legal Officer Ministry of Foreign Affairs East Africa,
Regional and International Cooperation.
With, as intervening Party,
THE REPUBLIC OF COTE D'IVOIRE,
Represented by:
Ibourahema BAKAYOKO, Directeur de la Protection des Droits de I'Homme et des Libertes
Publiques, Ministere des Droits de I'Homme et des Libertes Publiques (Director of the
Protection of Human Rights and Public Freedoms, Ministry of Human Rights and Public
Freedoms)
after deliberation,
renders the following Judgment:
I.
THE PARTIES
1. The Applicant, Armand Guehi, is a national of the Republic of Cote d'ivoire. He was
sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and is currently detained at the Arusha
Central Prison, United Republic of Tanzania.
2. The Application is filed against the United Republic of Tanzania (hereinafter referred
to as the "Respondent State"), which became party to the African Charter on Human
and Peoples' Rights (hereinafter referred to as the "Charter") on 21 October 1986
and the Protocol on 10 February 2006. The Respondent State also deposited, on 29
March 2010, the declaration under Article 34(6) of the Protocol, accepting the
jurisdiction of the Court to receive cases from individuals and Non-Governmental
Organisations.
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