African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights - jurisdiction - individual human rights complaints procedure - forum prorogatum as a basis for jurisdiction - costs

摘要

On December 15, 2009, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, based in Arusha, Tanzania, rendered its historic first judgment. In a short ruling accompanied by a separate opinion by Judge Fatsah Ouguergouz, the Court unanimously dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction (paras. 37, 46; sep. op. Ouguergouz, J., para. 1).