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January 17, 2023

Chad: protesters' hellish ordeal in remote desert prison

Dehydrated as their crowded truck snaked through the dunes, some drank urine to survive, while those who died were tossed into the Chadian desert.

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November 12, 2020

Tchad : prison secrète de l’ANS, des détenus racontent les sévices subis

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April 23, 2020

Chad: la polémique enfle après la mort de membres présumés de Boko Haram en prison

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October 7, 2019

Chad: l'armée reprend le contrôle de la prison d’Abéché après une mutinerie

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June 24, 2019

Chad: un mort et cinq blessés dans une tentative d'évasion

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April 27, 2017

Au Tchad, Hissène Habré définitivement condamné à la prison à vie

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April 13, 2017

Chad: attack on prisoner convoy kills 10

At least 10 people were killed in Chad in an attack against a convoy carrying prisoners, security sources have said.

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April 12, 2017

Tchad : le massacre prémédité des prisonniers tués hier ?

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March 27, 2017

Chad : conditions de vie précaires des détenus, le budget de la nourriture détourné

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March 27, 2017

Tchad : évasion spectaculaire à Abéché, 95 détenus s'échappent d'une prison

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March 26, 2017

Chad: civil society activists in solidarity march with jailed leaders

A number of activists in Chad on Saturday marched to a prison in the outskirts of the capital N’Djamena where four leaders of civil society groups are being held.

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February 20, 2017

Chad : N’Djamena, la Maison d’arrêt est engorgée

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July 31, 2015

Chad reintroduces death penalty with anti-terror law

Chad reintroduced the death penalty just six months after its abolition on Thursday, as legislators passed a stringent anti-terror bill in the face of a spate of deadly Boko Haram attacks.