The head of one of the largest Chadian human rights NGOs, Mahamat Nour Ahmet Ibedou, was suspended from his functions by court order, a measure which his lawyers opposed, they said on Sunday (August 23). AFP.
" We have opposed the order made by the president of the tribunal de grande instance of N'Djamena, which suspends the secretary general of the CTDDH ", the Chadian Convention for the Defense of Human Rights, detailed the lawyer Mahamat Hassan Abakar, who specifies that the suspension order was signed on August 12.
The CTDDH, like other human rights NGOs, regularly criticizes the Chadian regime, led by President Idriss Déby Itno for 30 years.
The NGO criticized the suspension of its secretary general, established according to a statement on the basis of a complaint filed on August 12 by a member, Ahamat Hassaballah, who has not been part of the organization since July 28.
" The members of the executive committee condemn with the utmost energy this cowardly and odious plot orchestrated by the highest authorities of the country, with the help of the Chadian justice which is in fact the armed wing of power ", denounced the NGO in a statement.
The collective of Chadian human rights associations considers for its part in a press release " that this procedure is an attack on the freedom of associations ".
The Minister of Justice, Djimet Arabi, for his part told AFP that it was " purely an internal matter ".
" A dozen members of his association took legal action to challenge the management of the association by its secretary general ", he detailed, adding: " if the government found that the secretary general of the CTDHH is embarrassing through his positions, he would have the possibility of suspending the activities of the association, but this is by no means the case ”.