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Defending Hissène Habré in Senegal During the Early Years

This chapter looks at the first cases against Hissène Habré in Dakar. On 25 January 2000, Souleymane Guengueng and seven other Chadian victims, as civil parties, lodged a complaint against Habré in Dakar for acts of torture and other inhumane and degrading treatment, in application of the United Nations Convention against Torture. Following the complaint, on 3 February 2000, the investigating judges charged Habré with knowingly aiding and abetting in the commission of crimes against humanity, acts of torture, and barbarity against the plaintiffs between June of 1982 and December of 1990: the period during which he served as President of the Republic of Chad. Senegalese public opinion was and would remain divided throughout the criminal proceedings. Hélène Cissé then discusses her role as Habré's defence attorney from 2000 to 2004, giving a singular account of the little-known early cases against Habré.