Seventy-seven people were sentenced to prison after a demonstration against the power repressed in October 2022 in Chad. The Chadian presidency indicated that they would be pardoned.
The protesters were responding to the opposition's call to mobilize peacefully against President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno's two-year extension in power in October. According to the government, 73 people were killed on this "Black Thursday", but many more are said to have been tortured or killed.