Over 139 people arrested during a bloody protest in Chad in October have been released after a month and a half in detention.
A total of 80 received one to two years’ suspended sentences and the remaining 59 were acquitted after a mass trial of 401 people.
Outlawed demonstrations were held on October 20th to mark the date when the military had initially promised to hand over power to civilians.
The trial was held behind closed doors for four days in late November, without lawyers and without independent media, in the prison of Koro Toro, 600 km northeast of N’Djamena, the capital, where the arrested demonstrators had been transferred en masse.