Seventy-seven people had been sentenced earlier this month for terms ranging up to five years on charges of taking part in an insurrectional movement or an unauthorised gathering in demonstrations against the ruling junta.
Chad s president on Wednesday pardoned a new wave of 67 people convicted of taking part in a bloody protest on October 20, 2022, and 11 others for a foiled "coup" in December, according to N Djamena.
Eleven perpetrators of a "coup" that the authorities claimed to have foiled in December in Chad have been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the public prosecutor of the N. Djamena, and will be pardoned, according to the presidency.
N’DJAMENA: Eleven men accused of planning a “coup d’etat” in Chad have been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the attorney general in N’Djamena told AFP Sunday, but the presidency said they would be pardoned. In early January, the government announced that 10 army officers and prominent rights campaigner Baradine Berdei Targuio had been arrested, accused of “attempting to