In the Matter of Ramadhani Issa Malengo v. United Republic of Tanzania

Abstract

2. The Application is filed against the United Republic of Tanzania (hereinafter referred to as “the Respondent State”), which became party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Charter”) on 21 October 1986, and to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol”) on 10 February 2006. On 29 March 2010, it also deposited the Declaration under Article 34(6) of the Protocol, through which it accepted the jurisdiction of the Court to receive cases from individuals and Non-Governmental Organizations.