Activist jailed for Facebook post on President
Publish date: 22 February 2021
Issue Number: 910
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Chad
A Chadian court has sentenced a rights activist to three years' imprisonment for writing that President Idriss Deby is seriously ill and being treated in France. A report on the News24 site notes that Deby has ruled Chad for more than 30 years and is running for a sixth term in presidential elections in April. Baradine Targuio, the head of the Chadian Organisation of Human Rights, was arrested a year ago for his Facebook post. The Criminal Court convicted him of ‘attacking the constitutional order’. Targuio had repeatedly denounced Deby and his circle for rights abuses.
