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Chad: 20-Year Sentence for Opposition Leader
Click to expand Image Demonstrators in Paris, France wave Chadian flags during a rally calling for the release of Succès Masra, May 31, 2025. © 2025 Umit Donmez / Anadolu via AFP (Nairobi) – The guilty verdict and 20-year sentence imposed on August 9, 2025, on Succès Masra, leader of Chad’s main opposition party, is the culmination of a trial based on politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said today.Masra, the former prime minister, …
Sentenced for "incitement to hatred", ex-Prime Minister Masra denounces a political trial in Chad where repression is intensifying under Mahamat Déby.
Al Jazeera/ Africa in Summary / August 11, 2025 Successes Masra denies the charges against him, related to intercommunity clashes that left dozens of dead in May.The former prime minister and opposition leader of Chad, Successes Masra, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for spreading racist and xenophobic messages [...] La entrada Chad. Opposition leader and former prime minister sentenced to 20 years in prison for incitement to violence w…
Success Masra, an opponent and former Prime Minister of Chad, was sentenced on 9 August to 20 years in prison in the case of the Mandakao massacre. This conviction, which amounts to ruling out the main opponent of the Chadian regime, recalls the methods of the late President Idriss Déby Itno, the father of the current leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, analyses the Djely.
Chad Opposition Leader, ex-PM Sentenced To 20 Years For Inciting Violence
Chad’s former prime minister and opposition leader Succes Masra has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for disseminating racist and xenophobic messages that incited violence. Defence lawyer Kadjilembay Francis told reporters following Saturday’s ruling at a court in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, that Masra would appeal his sentence. “He has just been subjected to ignominy and unworthy humiliation,” Francis said. Masra, who was prime minister…
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