TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I.
THE PARTIES.................................................................................................... 1
II.
SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION .................................................................... 2
A. Facts of the matter ....................................................................................... 2
B. Alleged violations ......................................................................................... 4
III.
SUMMARY OF THE PROCEDURE BEFORE THE COURT ............................. 4
IV.
PRAYERS OF THE PARTIES............................................................................ 4
V.
JURISDICTION .................................................................................................. 8
A. Objection based on material jurisdiction ...................................................... 8
B. Other jurisdiction requirements .................................................................... 9
VI.
ADMISSIBILITY ............................................................................................... 10
A. Objection to the admissibility of the Application based on incompatibility with
the Constitutive Act of the African Union.................................................... 11
B. Objection to admissibility based on non-exhaustion of local remedies ...... 12
i.
Proceedings in respect of dismissal ................................................ 15
ii.
Proceedings against the Applicant’s lawyers .................................. 16
iii.
Proceedings against the Commissioner of the Cotonou Central
Police Station, the Director General of Police and the Minister of the
Interior ............................................................................................. 18
iv.
Proceedings in respect of the attempted murder of the Applicant’s
father ............................................................................................... 19
C. Objection to admissibility based on failure to file the Application within a
reasonable time in relation to the proceedings against the Applicant’s lawyers
................................................................................................................. 21
D. Other admissibility requirements in relation to proceedings against the
lawyers....................................................................................................... 23
VII. MERITS ........................................................................................................... 24
VIII. REPARATIONS ............................................................................................... 26
IX.
COSTS ............................................................................................................. 27
X.
OPERATIVE PART .......................................................................................... 27
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