Senegal: President Wade Urged to Back Rights Prosecution

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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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