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http://www.worldcourts.com/achpr/eng/decisions/1995.03.22_International_PEN_v_Cote_d_Ivoire.htm |
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Citation: |
International PEN v. Cote d'Ivoire,
Decision, Comm. 138/94 (ACmHPR, Mar. 22, 1995) |
Publications: |
IHRDA, Compilation of Decisions on
Communications of the African Commission On Human and Peoples’
Rights Extracted from the Commission’s Activity Reports 1994-2001,
at 76 (2002); Documents of the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights, at 398 (Malcolm D. Evans & Rachel Murray eds.,
2001; (2000) AHRLR 70 (ACHPR 1995) |
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FACTS
1. International Pen submitted the communication on behalf of two
journalists - Senn and Sangare who published an article that had appeared in
Jeune Afrique about President Bédié. They were charged, imprisoned and fined
while the appeal was pending. They were again detained, charged and
imprisoned but subsequently released in an amnesty. In a subsequent letter
to the Commission, the author insisted that the journalists were detained in
violation of their rights.
FINDING
2. After reviewing the situation, the Commission held the view that if the
author required any remedies, it should first resort to the Ivory Coast, the
amnesty having extirpated the legal effects of detention and from which the
Commission could take note of. |
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