Souleymane Guengueng Explained
Souleymane Guengueng is a Chadian torture victim and human rights activist who was instrumental in bringing legal action against the former dictator Hissène Habré. He was born in 1952.[1]
In 2006 he and more than 90 others testified against Habré in a court in Senegal.[2]
He plays himself in the 2007 movie The Dictator Hunter by director Klaartje Quirijns. He spent three years of his life in prison.[3]
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Notes and References
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/world/africa/souleymane-guengueng-chad.html He Helped Topple a Dictator. In New York, He’s Another Face in the Crowd.
- https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/podcast/long-road-extraordinary-african-chambers Talking Justice: The Long Road to the Extraordinary African Chambers
- https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/VictimToVictor.aspx Victim to victor: the story of Souleymane Guengueng
