At least 139 people have been released in Chad after being arrested during a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests in October that killed dozens of people.
“They are free to return to their families,” Mahamat Allamine Al-Rachid, a deputy public prosecutor at the N’Djamena court reportedly said on Monday referring to people released from Koro-Toro, a prison 600 kilometres (372 miles) from the capital. A total of 59 were reportedly acquitted and 80 others received one to two years of suspended sentences.
