Life in jail for Chad’s ex-dictator Hissene Habre

Former Chad dictator Hissene Habre has been sentenced to life imprisonment for abuses committed during his time in power.
Life in jail for Chad’s ex-dictator Hissene Habre
Tue, 31 May, 2016 - 01:00
Carley Petesch

His trial had begun in July 2015.

Cheers, and fists pumping the air from scores of Habre’s former prisoners and their supporters greeted the ruling by Judge Gberdao Gustave Kam in a Senegal courtroom.

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Hissene HabreChadPlace: ChadPlace: SenegalPlace: DakarPlace: HaguePlace: BelgiumPerson: Hissene HabrePerson: HabrePerson: JudgePerson: Gberdao Gustave KamPerson: presidentPerson: Idriss DebyPerson: Reed BrodyPerson: Goukouni OueddeiOrganisation: Extraordinary African ChambersOrganisation: Chadian Truth CommissionOrganisation: ChadOrganisation: Security CouncilOrganisation: Human Rights WatchOrganisation: SenegalOrganisation: African Union
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