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Case Law
374 cases across 4 courts
374 cases
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
XYZ, an anonymous Beninese national, applied to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights for provisional measures against the Republic of Benin. The application challenged a Beninese decree prohibiting the...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
This document details an application for provisional measures filed by an anonymous individual against the Republic of Benin. The applicant challenges a national court's decision to make a former Prime Minister...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
An individual is challenging a decree issued by the Republic of Benin that prohibits the issuance of legal documents to certain persons sought by justice. The applicant alleges that this decree violates various human...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
This ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights addresses an application for provisional measures filed by a Beninese national. The applicant sought to challenge the five-year election ineligibility...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
This ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights addresses XYZ's application for provisional measures against the Republic of Benin. XYZ alleges that Benin's electoral body, the Orientation and Supervisory...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ordered the combining of three separate cases brought by Goh Taudier, Bamba Lamine, and Coulibaly Ousmane against the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. The Court decided this...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ordered the joinder of several applications filed by different individuals against the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. This decision was made because the cases involved similar...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued a ruling on provisional measures in the case of Komi Koutche against the Republic of Benin. Koutche, a Beninese politician facing extradition for alleged financial...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ordered the joinder of three separate applications filed by Aguehi Ogou François, Sylla Ibrahim, and Kinda Ibrahim against the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. The court found...
Citation pending | 2019-12-02
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ordered two separate applications against the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire to be combined into one proceeding. This decision was based on the cases having similar facts,...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ruled in the case of Ally Rajabu and Others against the United Republic of Tanzania. The judgment addressed alleged violations of the applicants' rights, including the...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights heard a case brought by Robert John Penessis against the United Republic of Tanzania, alleging violations of his rights to Tanzanian nationality, liberty, and freedom of...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights heard a case brought by Kennedy Gihana and others against the Republic of Rwanda. The applicants alleged that Rwanda's revocation of their passports was arbitrary and...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the case, finding it was being asked to act either as a court of first instance or as an appeals court over national court...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights considered an application for provisional measures filed by Suy Bi Gohoré Emile and others against the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. The application challenges a new law...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights considered an application by Dismas Bunyerere against the United Republic of Tanzania, alleging violations of his rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’...
APPLICATION No. 013/2017 | 2019-11-28
This judgment from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights concerns the reparations sought by Sébastien Germain Ajavon against the Republic of Benin. It details the applicant's claims for both financial...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
This judgment from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights concerns an application by Jibu Amir and Saidi Ally against the United Republic of Tanzania. The applicants alleged various human rights violations,...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
This court order addresses an application by Kipsang Kilel and others, members of the Ogiek Community, to join the reparations proceedings of a case previously decided against the Republic of Kenya regarding the Ogiek...
Citation pending | 2019-10-24
This Order from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights addresses an application for review filed by Wilson Barngetuny Koimet and 119 others. They sought to challenge a previous Court order that dismissed their...
Citation pending | 2019-09-26
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights rejected a request from Jean de Dieu Ndajigimana for temporary orders that would have released him from detention and stopped legal proceedings against him. Instead, the...
Citation pending | 2019-09-26
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ordered the joinder (combining) of three separate applications filed against the United Republic of Tanzania. This decision was made because the applicants were co-accused...
Citation pending | 2019-09-26
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights examined a case brought by Benedicto Daniel Mallya against the United Republic of Tanzania. The Court considered Mallya's claims that Tanzania violated his rights to...
Citation pending | 2019-09-26
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ordered the joinder of two separate applications filed by Konate Kalilou and Doumbia Ibrahim against the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. This decision was made because both...
Citation pending | 2019-09-26
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights re-opened proceedings in the case of Yusuph Hassani v. United Republic of Tanzania. The Court accepted the Respondent State's late-filed response regarding reparations and...
Citation pending | 2019-09-26
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights re-opened proceedings in the case of Chrizostom Benyoma v. United Republic of Tanzania. It accepted the Respondent State's late filing of its response to the Applicant's...
Citation pending | 2019-09-26
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ordered the joining of four separate applications filed by different individuals against Côte d’Ivoire. This decision was made because the cases involved the same...
APPLICATION No. 026/2017 | 2019-08-27
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights considered an application from Maulidi Swedi @ Mswezi Kalijo against the United Republic of Tanzania regarding alleged fair trial violations. The Court ordered the...
Citation pending | 2019-08-19
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights reopened the reparations proceedings in the case of Amir Ramadhani against the United Republic of Tanzania. This action allowed the respondent state's late submission on...
Citation pending | 2019-08-19
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued an order in the case of Sadick Marwa Kisase v. United Republic of Tanzania to re-open pleadings. This decision was made after the Respondent State filed its...
Citation pending | 2019-08-19
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued an order in a case between Deogratius Nicolaus Jeshi and the United Republic of Tanzania. This order re-opened pleadings regarding Jeshi's claim of fair trial...
Citation pending | 2019-08-08
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued an Order for Provisional Measures in the case of Thomas Boni Yayi v. Republic of Benin, regarding alleged human rights violations against the former president and...
Citation pending | 2019-08-07
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued an order in the case of Amir Ramadhani v. United Republic of Tanzania concerning reparations for a previous human rights violation. The Court decided to reopen the...
Citation pending | 2019-07-04
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ordered the combination of two separate applications filed by the same individual against the Republic of Benin. The Court determined that joining the cases was...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/24/19 | 2019-06-28
Dr. George S. Boley, former Vice-Chairman of Liberia's Transitional Legislative Assembly, sued the Republic of Liberia and its agencies. He claimed that Liberia failed to pay his retirement benefits, which were...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/17/19 | 2019-04-29
Three Ghanaian Justices brought a case before the ECOWAS Court of Justice, alleging that the process initiated for their removal from office, which included public disclosure of evidence and subsequent salary...
Citation pending | 2019-03-20
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued an Order of Provisional Measures in a case brought by Ngasa Nhabi against the United Republic of Tanzania. Nhabi, convicted of murder and sentenced to death,...
Citation pending | 2019-01-31
This Order from the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights concerns two Burundian nationals convicted of murder in Tanzania. The applicants requested permission to amend their applications, file additional...
Citation pending | 2018-12-07
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued an order for provisional measures in the case of Sébastien Germain Ajavon v. Republic of Benin. Ajavon alleged that drug trafficking charges, despite his acquittal,...
Citation pending | 2018-12-07
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued an Order for Provisional Measures in the case of Sebastien Germain Ajavon against the Republic of Benin. Ajavon, a businessman, alleged a conspiracy and human...
[2018] ACHPR 124 | 2018-10-18
The European Alliance for Human Rights and others filed a complaint with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights against Egypt. The complaint alleges widespread human rights violations, including...
[2018] ACHPR 3 | 2018-08-08
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights received a complaint from Mrs. Ayatulla Alaa Hosny against the Arab Republic of Egypt, alleging the arbitrary arrest, torture, and detention of her husband, a...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/24/18 | 2018-07-04
Plaintiffs representing the Ette Community in Kogi State sued the Federal Republic of Nigeria, alleging a failure to protect their community. They claim the community was displaced by attacks from individuals and Enugu...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/23/18 | 2018-07-04
Finance Investment & Development Corporation (FIDC) sued the Republic of Liberia in the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, alleging that Liberia violated FIDC's rights to fair hearing and property. FIDC claimed Liberia...
ECW/CCJ/JUD/21/18 | 2018-06-29
Family members of Ikyase Chia sued the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, alleging that Nigerian police officers violated Chia's right to life and dignity through brutality that led...
[2018] ACHPR 133 | 2018-04-28
This communication alleges that the Republic of Uganda unlawfully detained Patrick Okiring and Agupio Samson, who were accused of treason, despite multiple court orders granting them bail and declaring their detention...
Communication 355/07 | 2018-04-28
Hossam Ezzat and Rania Enayet, a Baha'i couple in Egypt, complained that they and their children were unable to register their faith on official documents because the state only recognizes Islam, Christianity, and...
Communication 596/16 | 2018-04-28
Romy Goornah filed a complaint against Mauritius with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, challenging his conviction and 32-year sentence for drug importation after his appeals failed through various...
[2018] ACHPR 135 | 2018-04-27
This document details the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights' decision on a complaint against Eritrea regarding the alleged unlawful, incommunicado detention of journalist Dawit Isaak since 2001. It...
Citation pending | 2018-03-22
This judgment concerns Anudo Ochieng Anudo's claims against the United Republic of Tanzania regarding alleged violations of his human rights. The case primarily involved the applicant's right to nationality, the right...