- DAILY NEWS Reporter in Arusha
The Applicants - Wilfred Onyango and
nine others -have denied the charges and alleged that they were lawfully
in Mozambique probing business opportunities when they were, without
lawful resort to legal measures or extradition, on 16 January 2006,
kidnapped and put on a military aeroplane bound for Tanzania, where they
have been incarcerated since and charged with murder and three charges
of armed robbery.
They want the African Court on Human and
Peoples’ Rights to order for stay of criminal proceedings against them,
restoration of their rights and order reparation to remedy the
violation, among others.
The respondent state has denied the
allegations. In addition, it claims that the applicant has not met the
admissibility rule of the Court, among others and thus the application
be dismissed.
The Judges heard the Applicants and the
Respondent State in May 2015 during its 37th Ordinary Session in Arusha.
The Court is composed of eleven judges, nationals of Member States of
the African Union elected in their individual capacity.
The Court meets four times a year in
Ordinary Sessions and may meet in Extra-Ordinary Session. By end of
February, the Court had received 74 applications of which 25 have been
finalised.
Four applications have been transferred to the Banjul-based African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
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