vi) Mr. Michael LUENA, Principal State Attorney; vii) Mr. Veritas MLAY, State Attorney After deliberation, delivers the following Judgment: I. THE PARTIES 1. The Applicant is Mr. Mohamed Abubakari, a national of the United Republic of Tanzania, who is currently serving a thirty-year term of imprisonment at the Karanga Main Prison at Moshi, Kilimanjaro, for the offence of armed robbery. 2. The Respondent is the United Republic of Tanzania which ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (hereinafter referred to as "the Charter") on 18 February 1984, the Protocol on 7 February 2006; and deposited the declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the Court to receive cases from individuals and non-governmental organisations on 29 March 2010. The Respondent also acceded to the 11 December 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter referred to as "the Covenant") on 11 July 1976. II. SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION 3. The Court was seised of an Application dated 8 October 2013 to which written submissions were annexed. The Annex comprised a copy of the Judgment of the Court of Appeal of Tanzania in Criminal Appeal No. 48 of 2004, in the matter of Mohamed Abubakari v. The Republic 1 of 5 October 2004. 1 Also attached to the Application is another Judgment of the High Court of Moshi dated 27 February 2013 in another Case, Alfayo Michel Shemwilu and Ramadhani Shekiondo v. The Republic Criminal Revision No. 2 of 2013. This Judgment is on the issue of the sentence applicable in case of a crime of armed robbe~ 3

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