Good News! Dictator Sentenced to Life Behind Bars‏

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here. THE WEEK IN RIGHTS June 02, 2016 Follow us on:   Chad's Ex-Dictator Sentenced to Life for Atrocities By Reed Brody Photo © 2015 Human Rights Watch Over 25 years ago, Souleymane Guengueng, a deeply religious civil servant who watched dozens of his cellmates succumb to torture and disease in Hissène Habré’s Chadian prisons, took an oath that if he ever got out of jail alive, he would bring his tormentors to justice. Today I sat alongside Souleymane and other survivors as Habré was convicted of atrocities by a special court in Senegal, where he’s lived in luxurious exile since his overthrow in 1990.  Read more » share on: