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    Chad reintroduces death penalty with anti-terror law

    N`Djamena: Chad reintroduced the death penalty just six months after its abolition Thursday, as legislators passed a stringent anti-terror bill in the face of a spate of deadly Boko Haram attacks.

    After suffering two suicide bombings in a month, including one in a bustling market in the capital N`Djamena, Chad has beefed up security in recent weeks.

    It has already banned the wearing of the full Islamic veil, and on Thursday local authorities in the capital imposed a ban on begging.

    The government`s draft law had raised fears among opponents and rights activists that it might be used to curtail freedoms, and legislators took its proposals much further, toughening sentences and giving the police greater powers in cases of suspected terrorism.

    Beyond capital punishment for the most serious cases, penalties for lesser terror offences were increased to life from the current maximum of 20 years, and the duration for which suspects can be held by police without charge will be increased from 48 hours to 30 days, renewable twice.

    Lawmakers passed the law unanimously, with 146 votes for and zero against, including zero abstentions. Some 40 or so deputies were absent, however, in a national assembly dominated by the ruling party of President Idriss Deby Itno, who has held power since 1990.

    Chad has helped spearhead a major regional offensive launched in early 2015 to fight the Nigerian militants, and N`Djamena is now set to host the headquarters of a new, more efficient multinational task force created in the face of a fresh surge of attacks.Opposition leader Saleh Kebzabo declared he was "relatively satisfied" with the law, as deputies had amended one article derided for an overly vague definition of terrorism.

    A provision to safeguard freedom of expression and human rights was added to the final draft.

    "No one wants terrorism," Kebzabo had said earlier, adding that the fight against Boko Haram has come as a "windfall to the Chadian government" and "allows for the organisation of repression before the presidential vote" slated for next year.

    In June 2005, a constitutional revision adopted following a controversial referendum scrapped the limit to two five-year presidential terms. Itno was re-elected in 2006 and again in 2011.

    Chad has taken steps to increase security since suicide attacks struck a school and a police building in N`Djamena in June, killing 38 people, and again in July, killing 15 in a market.

    On Thursday, authorities in N`Djamena banned begging in the capital a week after two girls who were begging blew themselves up in neighbouring Cameroon.

    In a country where Muslims make up 53 percent of the population -- with Christians accounting for 35 percent -- the ban on the veil, including the face-covering burqa, prompted mixed reactions.

    The tough prohibition was a first in Africa, but several regions of Cameroon and Niger have since followed suit.

    On Thursday, N`Djamena mayor Ali Haroun also ordered bars to shut at 10:00 pm, except on Saturdays and on the eve of public holidays, when they are allowed to stay open until midnight.

    In Cameroon, a 12-year-old girl suicide bomber killed 20 people last Saturday night in an attack on a bar in Maroua, which is situated southwest of the border from N`Djamena.

    Raids and arrests by the security forces have shot up in recent months, with reports of hundreds of people detained in N`Djamena alone.

    Amnesty International has condemned the "total impunity" in which serious rights violations take place in Chad.

    "Human rights defenders, journalists and trade unionists were victims of harassment, intimidation, arbitrary arrest and detention," the London-based rights group said in its annual report for 2014-2015.

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    CHAD: First executions by firing squad in more than a decade

    ABIDJAN (IRIN) - Four Chadian men sentenced to death for the murder of a Sudanese businessman were executed by firing squad in the Chadian capital N'Djamena on Thursday, human rights activists said.

    Another three convicted murderers were killed at the same time in N'Djamena, while a fourth was shot dead in the eastern town of Abeche, international news agencies said.

    It was the first official execution to take place in the land-locked central African country since 1991 and was immediately condemned by the Chadian League of Human Rights (LTDH).

    http://www.irinnews.org/report/47099...-than-a-decade

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    Chad sentences 10 Boko Haram members to death

    Chad yesterday sentenced 10 members of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram to death on terror charges.

    The development is a clear sign of a working judicial system unlike Nigeria where hundreds of Boko Haram suspect rot in detention.

    The country where the sect operates from has secured insignificant prosecutions even though it regularly arrests Boko Haram fighters.

    But just after a three-day trial in the capital N’Djamena, the 10 were convicted over their roles in twin attacks on the capital in June, which killed at least 38.

    BBC reports that the attacks were the first by the Nigerian-based group in Chad, which hosts the headquarters of a regional force set up to fight the militants.

    In July, Chad reintroduced the death penalty for acts of terror.

    The men were found guilty of charges including criminal conspiracy, killings, wilful destruction with explosives, fraud, illegal possessions of arms and ammunition, and using psychotropic substances, according to chief prosecutor Bruno Mahouli Louapambe.

    The trial would have lasted eight days, but “due to security reasons it was speeded up and moved on Thursday to an undisclosed secret location,” a judicial source told AFP.

    Among those convicted was Mahamat Mustapha, aka Bana Fanaye, the man described as the “mastermind” of the attack by Chad’s Interior Minister Abderahim Bireme Hamid.

    The June attacks were followed by a blast at a market in the capital in July, which killed 15 people.

    Chad has banned people from wearing the full-face veil following the bombings.

    http://dailypost.ng/2015/08/29/chad-...bers-to-death/

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    Chad executes 10 Boko Haram members by firing squad

    N'DJAMENA - Chad has executed 10 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram by firing squad, a day after they were sentenced on terrorism charges, security sources said on Saturday.

    "They were shot this morning at the Massaguet firing range," said one of the sources, referring to a city about 60 km (40 miles) northeast of the capital N'Djamena.

    Among the executed was Mahamat Moustapha, a 30-year-old Cameroonian who was accused of masterminding a series of attacks on N'Djamena.

    More than 40 people were killed in those attacks in June and July, prompting Chadian President Idriss Deby to introduce a series of tough new anti-terror laws.

    Chad is a leading country in a regional 8,700-strong military task force fighting Boko Haram. Deby says the jihadist insurgent movement could be destroyed by year end.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/0...0QY0JE20150829

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    Wow! I'm glad to see the DP there, but no appeals?!

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    I'm assuming that they were just executed right away because Boko Haram might have tried to break them out.

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    Chad abolishes the death penalty

    Chad passed a new anti-terrorism law on Tuesday that abolishes the death penalty for terrorism-related crimes in the country, parliament announced.

    The new law replaces legislation that was introduced on July 30, 2015, which made acts of terrorism punishable by death.

    The death penalty was reinstated for terror crimes – after the government said in 2014 it would be abolished because of attacks by the militia group Boko Haram in the capital of N’Djamena, which left 67 dead, including 10 suicide bombers, and 182 injured.

    The move now abolishes the death penalty in Chad overall.

    At the time, civil and human rights groups were opposed to the move, concerned that it could be used to curb rights.

    In 2018, after four prisoners were sentenced to death in Chad, the European Union called on the government to join the majority of African Union states that had abolished the death penalty.

    Boko Haram, meanwhile, continues to pose a threat to communities in Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.

    Since 2009, tens of thousands of people have died at the hands of the Sunni fundamentalists in the region and an estimated 2.5 million people have fled their homes.

    https://www.premiumtimesng.com/forei...h-penalty.html
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    Another corrupt country anyway that was death penalty in name only.

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