Chad: Discussion on Justice for Past Crimes Blocked

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Reed Brody, former counsel and spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, left, and Souleyman Guengueng, a Chadian human rights activist who was imprisoned and tortured under the Hissène Habré regime, in Dakar, Senegal, July 13, 2015. © 2015 AP Photo/Carley Petesch (Nairobi) – Police in Chad forced the cancelation of a conference in the capital, N’Djamena, on October 2, 2024, that was planned to discuss justice for the victims of abuse by Hissène Habré, Human Rights Watch said today. The police also detained a former Human Rights Watch counsel who was to be a…

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