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32. On 02 June 2017, the Secretariat received the Complainants'
Submissions on the Merits
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of
the
Communication,
which
was
ACHPR/COMIvI/461/13/ETH/403/17
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acknowledged
by
letter
Ref:
dated 05 June 2017.
33. By a Note Verbale Ref: ACHPR/COMM/
461/13/ETH/
402/17 dated 05 June 2017, the
Complainants' written submissions on the ~erits were transmitted to the Respondent
State with a request for the latter to subJit
its written o?servations
within 60 (sixty) days of the notification.
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34. The Secretariat did not receive the Observations otf,tn~\R~spond~D:tState on the Merits
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35. On 01 November 2016, the Secretariat
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of the Communication
from the
by ~<N"ote-:Verbale
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ACHPR/ COMM/ 461/13/
acknowledged receipt of the ,Notice ot'jlWl,~iti~a'n
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29 November 2016, the
36. By a letter Ref. ACHPR/CO~~41461/13.£iEWiMi1952/
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Secretariat transmlr~~~1~6\~e tci,tf~e':"Complaiha"e;t~'0Jor their written Observations
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@'~) days of the n '#{is,ation and: Informed
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within thirty
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the Respondent
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November 2016.'\
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37. The Co~plai ,,,'.;-," t;gue that they have fulfilled all the requirements of Admissibility
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38. Regarding
Ai~~~le
56 (1), the Complainants submit that they are legally represented
by Yakare-Oui~ (Nani) Jansen, Patrick Griffith and Korieh Duodu, who are the authors
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of the Complaint and this submission on admissibility, That they have been' de tified
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as Eskinder Nega, born on 7 November 1~69 in Addis Ababa, EthiQI2~a-~mjM~~~"
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Alemu, born on 21 January 1980 in Ad~
Ethiopian nationality
representatives
71 P age
Afri;nr,i.~~
Unlon\o.1fi
(Nazareth), Ethiopia.
and an address fir correspondence
has been provided.
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