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The African Court dismissed provisional-measures requests seeking Ghazi Chaouachi’s release and removal of obstacles to his presidential candidacy in Tunisia.
The African Court granted provisional measures in part, ordering Tunisia to remove barriers to detainees’ access to lawyers and doctors and to explain the basis of detention.
The African Commission struck out Femi Falana’s communication against Cameroon for lack of diligent prosecution after no admissibility submissions were filed on time.
The High Court struck out a criminal application after finding the supporting affidavit incurably defective because it contained hearsay and lacked proper supporting affidavits.
The African Commission granted Djibouti’s request to withdraw its inter-state communication against Eritrea and closed the matter at the merits stage.
The circumstances present extreme gravity and urgency, with imminent risk of irreparable harm to applicants' political rights and personal liberty, especially given upcoming elections; provisional measures are necessary to preserve status quo ante pending judgment on merits.
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The Court found that the applicants, being prominent political figures facing imminent risk of deprivation of liberty and political rights due to arrest and detention orders, met the criteria of extreme gravity, urgency, and risk of irreparable harm. The Court ordered suspension of arrest and detention measures to preserve the status quo ante until a decision on the merits.
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The African Court declined provisional measures in Thomas Boni Yayi v. Republic of Benin, finding no extreme gravity or urgency to justify interim relief.
The communication was declared inadmissible because Burundi was not a party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights at the time of the complaint.
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The communication is barred by res judicata as the same parties, issues, and relief were previously decided in Communication 275/03 – Article 19 v Eritrea; allegations of bias, breach of confidentiality, and politicisation are unsubstantiated and dismissed.
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