New York — As Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade visits New York
today, Human Rights Watch urges him to seek the re-instatement of
torture charges against the exiled Chadian dictator Hissene Habre.
The case against Habre, labeled the "African Pinochet," is seen as a
human rights landmark.
Habre, who ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990 before fleeing to Senegal,
was indicted by a Senegalese court in February, marking the first
time an African country had brought a rights case against another
nation's head of state.
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