Chad’s Deby pardons aid workers

CHAD’S President Idriss Deby yesterday granted an official pardon for six French aid workers jailed in December for abducting children from the landlocked central African country, state radio said.

Chad’s Deby pardons aid workers

The six members of the Zoe’s Ark charity were sentenced to eight years hard labour by a Chadian court late last year after it convicted them of trying to fly 103 African children to Europe without permission from the authorities.

The charity workers, who had denied the charges, were flown back to France in late December and were serving their prison sentences there under a cooperation agreement.

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