African Human Rights Law Reports 2008

Centre For Human Rights, Peoples' Rights, The African Commission On Human, University Of Pretoria

Description

The African Human Rights Law Reports include cases decided by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and domestic judgments from different African countries.The Reports are a joint publication of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. PULP also publishes the French version of these Reports, Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains. The Reports, as well as other material of relevance to human rights law in Africa, may be found on the website of the Centre for Human Rights at www.chr.up.ac.za. Hard copies of the Reports can be obtained from the Centre for Human Rights.Editorial changes have been kept to a minimum, and are confined to changes that are required to ensure consistency in style (with regard to abbreviations, capitalisation, punctuation and quotes) and to avoid obvious errors related to presentation. However, in the case of Ivorian Human Rights Movement (MIDH) v Côte d’Ivoire (2008) AHRLR 62 (ACHPR 2008) and Wetsh’okonda Koso and Others v Democratic Republic of the Congo (2008) AHRLR 93 (ACHPR 2008), in this volume more extensive edits have been done to ensure consistency with the French original. Cases from national courts that would be of interest to include in future issues of the Reports may be brought to the attention of the editors at:

Sujets

• Droit
• JUSTICE

Informations

• Publié par: PULP (Pretoria University Law Press)
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REPORTS 2008

2010

African human rights law reports 2008

Published by:

Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)

The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) is a publisher at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. PULP endeavours to publish and make available innovative, high-quality scholarly texts on law and related disciplines in Africa. PULP also publishes a series of collections of legal documents related to public law in Africa, as well as text books from African countries other than South Africa.

For more information on PULP, see www.pulp.up.ac.za

Printed and bound by: ABC Press Cape Town

To order, contact: PULP Faculty of Law University of Pretoria South Africa 0002 Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] [e-mail] www.pulp.up.ac.az

ISSN: 1812-2418

© 2010

Editorial User guide Abbreviations

CONTENTS

Case law on the internet

TABLES AND INDEXES

Table of cases

Alphabetical table of cases

Subject index

International instruments referred to

International case law considered

African Commission decisions according to communication numbers

CASES

United Nations human rights treaty bodies

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Sub-regional courts

Domestic decisions

iii

v vi vii vii

ix xi xii xxi xxxi xxxviii

1 41 169 221

EDITORIAL

TheAfrican Human Rights Law Reportsinclude cases decided by the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and domestic judgments from different African countries. TheReportsare a joint publication of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. PULP also publishes the French version of theseReports, Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains.

TheReports,as well as other material of relevance to human rights law in Africa, may be found on the website of the Centre for Human Rights at www.chr.up.ac.za. Hard copies of theReportscan be obtained from the Centre for Human Rights.

Editorial changes have been kept to a minimum, and are confined to changes that are required to ensure consistency in style (with regard to abbreviations, capitalisation, punctuation and quotes) and to avoid obvious errors related to presentation. However, in the case ofIvorian Human Rights Movement (MIDH) v Côte d’IvoireAHRLR 62 (ACHPR 2008) and (2008) Wetsh’okonda Koso and Others v Democratic Republic of the Congo (2008) AHRLR 93 (ACHPR 2008), in this volume more extensive edits have been done to ensure consistency with the French original.

Cases from national courts that would be of interest to include in future issues of theReportsmay be brought to the attention of the editors at:

Centre for Human Rights Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002 South Africa Fax: + 27 12 362-5125 E-mail: [e-mail]

v

USER GUIDE

The cases and findings in theReportsare grouped together according to their origin, namely, the United Nations, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and domestic courts. TheSubject indexdivided into two parts — general principles or is procedural issues, and substantive rights. Decisions dealing with a specific article in an international instrument are to be found in the list of International instruments referred to. A table that listsInternational case law consideredis also included. In these tables case references are followed by the numbers of the paragraphs in which the instruments or cases are cited. A headnote, to be found at the top of each case, provides the full original title of the case as well as keywords noting the primary issues in the case. These are linked to the keywords in theSubject index. Keywords are followed by the numbers of the paragraphs in which a specific issue is dealt with. In instances where the original case contains no paragraph numbers these have been added in square brackets. The date at the end of a case reference refers to the date the case was decided. The abbreviation before the date indicates the jurisdiction.

vi

ACHPR AHRLR CAT CCPR ECOWAS

HRC KeHC SASCA SADC UgCC UgHC ZaSC

ABBREVIATIONS

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights African Human Rights Law Reports Committee Against Torture International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Economic Community of West African States Community Court of Justice United Nations Human Rights Committee High Court, Kenya South African Supreme Court of Appeal Southern African Development Community Tribunal Constitutional Court, Uganda High Court, Uganda Supreme Court, Zambia

CASE LAW ON THE INTERNET

Case law concerning human rights in Africa may be found on the following sites: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights www.ohchr.org

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights www.achpr.org

African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights www.african-court.org

Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria www.chr.up.ac.za

Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) www.oxfordlawreports.com

Interights www.interights.org

Association des Cours Constitutionelles www.accpuf.org

Commonwealth Legal Information Institute www.commonlii.org

Southern African Legal Information Institute www.saflii.org

Court of Appeal, Nigeria www.courtofappeal.gov.ng

vii

Nigeria Internet Law Reports www.nigeria-law.org/LawReporting.htm

Constitutional Court, South Africa www.constitutionalcourt.org.za

viii

TABLE OF CASES

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES

Human Rights Committee

Algeria Madoui v Algeria(2008) AHRLR 3 (HRC 2008)

Committee against Torture

Tunisia Ali v Tunisia(2008) AHRLR 15 (CAT 2008)

AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS

Angola Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa v Angola(2008) AHRLR 43 (ACHPR 2008)

Côte d’Ivoire Mouvement Ivorien des Droits Humains (MIDH) v Côte d’Ivoire (I)(2008) AHRLR 62 (ACHPR 2008) Mouvement Ivoirien des Droits Humains (MIDH) v Côte d’Ivoire (II)(2008) AHRLR 75 (ACHPR 2008)

Democratic Republic of the Congo Wetsh’okonda Koso and Others v Democratic Republic of the Congo(2008) AHRLR 93 (ACHPR 2008)

Nigeria Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project v Nigeria(2008) AHRLR 108 (ACHPR 2008)

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and Another(2008) AHRLR 120 (ACHPR 2008) Majuru v Zimbabwe(2008) AHRLR 146 (ACHPR 2008)

SUB-REGIONAL COURTS

ECOWAS Community Court of Justice Manneh v The Gambia(2008) AHRLR 171 (ECOWAS 2008) Koraou v Niger(2008) AHRLR 182 (ECOWAS 2008)

SADC Tribunal Mike Campbell (Pvt) Limited and Others v Zimbabwe(2008) AHRLR 199 (SADC 2008)

ix

Table of cases x

DOMESTIC DECISIONS

South Africa Mthembu v The State(2008) AHRLR 223 (SASCA 2008)

Uganda Foundation for Human Rights Initiatives v Attorney-General(2008) AHRLR 235 (UgCC 2008) Mukasa and Another v Attorney-General(2008) AHRLR 248 (UgHC 2008)

Zambia Attorney-General v Clarke(2008) AHRLR 259 (ZaSC 2008)

ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF CASES

Ali v Tunisia(2008) AHRLR 15 (CAT 2008) Attorney-General v Clarke(2008) AHRLR 259 (ZaSC 2008) Foundation for Human Rights Initiatives v Attorney-General(2008) AHRLR 235 (UgCC 2008) Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa v Angola(2008) AHRLR 43 (ACHPR 2008) Mouvement Ivorien des Droits Humains (MIDH) v Côte d’Ivoire (I) (2008) AHRLR 62 (ACHPR 2008) Koraou v Niger(2008) AHRLR 182 (ECOWAS 2008) Madoui v Algeria(2008) AHRLR 3 (HRC 2008) Majuru v Zimbabwe(2008) AHRLR 146 (ACHPR 2008) Manneh v The Gambia(2008) AHRLR 171 (ECOWAS 2008) Mike Campbell (Pvt) Limited and Others v Zimbabwe(2008) AHRLR 199 (SADC 2008) Mouvement Ivoirien des Droits Humains (MIDH) v Côte d’Ivoire (II)(2008) AHRLR 75 (ACHPR 2008) Mthembu v The State(2008) AHRLR 223 (SASCA 2008) Mukasa and Another v Attorney-General(2008) AHRLR 248 (UgHC 2008) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project v Nigeria(2008) AHRLR 108 (ACHPR 2008) Wetsh’okonda Koso and Others v Democratic Republic of the Congo(2008) AHRLR 93 (ACHPR 2008) Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and Another(2008) AHRLR 120 (ACHPR 2008)

xi