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23. The Secretariat did not receive any reply from the Complainants within the one month
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deadline granted to them and no request for:extension of time to submit the same was
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24. Consideration of the admissibility of the Communication was deferred during the 17th
Extraordinary Session of the Commission hild from 17 to 28 February 2015.
25. By letter dated 26 April 2015, the cdmplainants
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sixty (60) of the notification.
31. By a Note Verbale Ref: ACHPR/COMM/4~1/13/ETH/1788/14
dated 17 November
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2016, the Respondent State was informed about the Commiss:Lo~-decision
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