Chad’s presidency said in a statement \u200cthat President Mahamat Idriss Deby has pardoned his main rival and opposition leader Succes Masra, who has been \u200bin jail for more than a year \u200bfor inciting violence and complicity to murder.<\/p>\n
Masra, \u2060a former prime minister, was sentenced to \u200b20 years and fined 1 billion CFA francs ($1.77 \u200bmillion)\u00a0last year\u00a0in a trial that was criticized by human rights activists as politically motivated.<\/p>\n
Masra will be released in \u200bthe coming days, the statement said, after \u200bthe presidency agreed to a request for a pardon submitted \u200cby \u2060his attorneys.<\/p>\n
Masra was internationally recognized as the most vocal figure in the opposition. He will be freed along with eight other political figures, the \u200bstatement said.<\/p>\n
“These \u200bnine individuals \u2060will be released as soon as the Ministry of Justice makes the \u200bnecessary arrangements in the coming hours \u200band \u2060days,” the presidency said.<\/p>\n
“They have been pardoned by the Head of State. However, the pardon does \u2060not \u200bwaive the civil penalties, which \u200bremain enforceable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chad’s presidency said in a statement \u200cthat President Mahamat Idriss Deby has pardoned his main rival and opposition leader Succes Masra, who has been \u200bin jail for more than a year \u200bfor inciting violence and complicity to murder. Masra, \u2060a former prime minister, was sentenced to \u200b20 years and fined 1 billion CFA francs ($1.77 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2362,33],"tags":[475,1209,1667],"class_list":["post-21772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-featured","category-politics","tag-chad","tag-mahamat-idriss-deby","tag-succes-masra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21773,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21772\/revisions\/21773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}