Representation of the Parties;
1. Frederick A.B Jayweh- Counsel with Lela R. Holden- Agent to the Plaintiff
2. Christiana Tah, Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Liberia.
Delivers the following Judgment:
1. SUMMARY OF THE FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The Plaintiff alleges that the Defendant appointed him as her Consul General to the
United States in 1999. He was accredited to the office near Atlanta in Georgia United
States of America. According to him, on May 8th, 2002, he was arrested, on an
indictment for sexually related offences purportedly committed prior to his
appointment, and was tried and sentenced to 135 (one hundred and thirty- five) years
by a Court in the United States.
He further complained that the Defendant, whom he represents as Consul General,
neither intervened, protested nor offered him diplomatic protection by invoking
diplomatic immunity on his behalf and securing his release after conviction. He
therefore claimed that such omission or negligence by the Defendant amounted to
the violation of his human rights as provided for by the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961.
He therefore claimed for a Declaration that his rights have been violated by the
Defendant and also claimed damages.
2. THE PLAINTIFF’S CASE
By an application dated the 10th of July 2014 and lodged before this Court on the 18th
of July, 2014 the plaintiff, a naturalized Citizen of the Republic of Liberia (the
Defendant) alleged that his right as provided for by the African Charter on Human
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