African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights - 2024 October

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October 2024
Court dismissed the applicants' case for lack of personal jurisdiction because the respondent had not deposited an Article 34(6) declaration.
Jurisdiction – Article 34(6) Declaration – Lack of personal jurisdiction where State has not deposited Declaration; Preliminary jurisdictional examination under Rules of Court; New application distinct from previously decided matter; Interim relief not considered where jurisdiction absent.
16 October 2024
Provisional measures for release and electoral participation dismissed as raising merits issues, not urgent preventive relief.
* Provisional measures – requirements – extreme gravity, urgency and irreparable harm (cumulative standard). * Jurisdiction – prima facie jurisdiction sufficient for provisional measures where State ratified instruments and deposited Article 34(6) declaration. * Provisional measures vs merits – relief amounting to suspension or annulment of detention and assessment of electoral impediments constitutes merits and cannot be decided in provisional proceedings. * Case-by-case approach – prior provisional rulings do not automatically dictate outcome in a distinct factual context. * Non-compliance with prior provisional order noted but does not convert merits relief into provisional relief.
3 October 2024
Court ordered a provisional stay on a decree empowering executive dismissal of judges to protect judicial independence.
• Human rights — provisional measures — Article 27(2) Protocol — requirements of extreme gravity, urgency and irreparable harm; • Judicial independence — separation of powers — executive power to dismiss judges; • Interim relief — stay of implementation of law and presidential decree pending merits.
3 October 2024
Publication request found moot; other provisional measures dismissed as engaging the merits of electoral-law claims.
Provisional measures – standards of extreme gravity, urgency and irreparable harm; provisional measures limited to preventive relief not requiring merits determination; mootness of requests where State action published in Official Gazette; electoral law requirements and candidacy obstacles; requests touching merits dismissed.
3 October 2024