One Year on Since Arrest of Opposition Leader in Chad

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Succes Masra, president of the Chadian opposition party Les Transformateurs, outside the party headquarters in N'Djamena, April 8, 2021. © 2021 Marco Longer/AFP via Getty Images One year after Chadian authorities arrested and later sentenced Succès Masra, the prominent opposition leader and former prime minister, his continued imprisonment on politically motivated charges underscores the government’s intolerance of dissent.Masra, leader of the opposition party Les Transformateurs (The Transformers), was arrested at his residence in N’Djamena early on…

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